Is Bayes posterior just quick and dirty confidence?

DOI10.1214/11-STS352zbMath1246.62040arXiv1112.5582OpenAlexW3101847394MaRDI QIDQ449832

Publication date: 1 September 2012

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5582

zbMATH Keywords

posterior nonlinear parameters priors Bayes error rate default prior evaluating priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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