Prior Distributions
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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Elicitation of Opinion: A Brief Review Critique of Prior Elicitation Summary of External Evidence* Default Priors Sensitivity Analysis and "Robust" Priors Hierarchical Priors Empirical Criticism of Priors Key Points Exercises
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The uniform distribution tends to unduly favor presence of heterogeneity in discrimination and calibration estimates across studies.
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- Authors
- Spiegelhalter, D. J., Abrams, K. R., & Myles, J. P.
- Affiliations
- MRC Biostatistics Unit (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Cancer Research UK (GB)
- Venue
- Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health‐Care Evaluation
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-12-09
- Pages
- 139-180
- OpenAlex
- W4235480153
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Keywords
- prior distributions, prior elicitation, default priors, sensitivity analysis, hierarchical priors, empirical priors, external evidence, Bayesian inference
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