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

DOI10.1080/03610928808829614zbMath0641.62022MaRDI 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 allocation; linear ordering; Bayes' postulate; expected dispersion; amount of prior information; estimating the difference between two proportions; family of beta distributions; least informative beta prior; more informative prior; uniform (0,1) distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

62C10: Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures

62A01: Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics

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