Hidden Dangers of Specifying Noninformative Priors

DOI10.1080/00031305.2012.695938MaRDI QIDQ5876894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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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• BayesDA
• BaM
• BUGS

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