A note on optimal allocation and an ordering of the family of beta prior distributions

DOI10.1080/03610928808829614zbMath0641.62022OpenAlexW2072425751MaRDI QIDQ3782601

Tommy Wright

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928808829614

zbMATH Keywords

optimal allocationlinear orderingBayes' postulateexpected dispersionamount of prior informationestimating the difference between two proportionsfamily of beta distributionsleast informative beta priormore informative prioruniform (0,1) distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

Related Items (3)

Bayesian analysis of the difference of two proportions ⋮ Value of the beta prior information ⋮ Prior information in optimal allocation for multinomial population

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