Hidden Dangers of Specifying Noninformative Priors

DOI10.1080/00031305.2012.695938OpenAlexW2085259108MaRDI QIDQ5876894

Unnamed Author, James D. Stamey, John W. jun. Seaman

Publication date: 2 February 2023

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2012.695938

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian methodsdiffuse priorinduced prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• BaM
• BUGS
• BayesDA

Cites Work

• Bayesian reliability
• A weakly informative default prior distribution for logistic and other regression models
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