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Reference Posterior Distributions for Bayesian Inference

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Bernardo, Jose M.·1979·Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
DOI 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1979.tb01066.x
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Summary: A procedure is proposed to derive reference posterior distributions which approximately describe the inferential content of the data without incorporating any other information. More explicitly, operational priors, derived from information-theoretical considerations, are used to obtain reference posteriors which may be expected to approximate the posteriors which would have been obtained with the use of proper priors describing vague initial states of knowledge. The results obtained unify and generalize some previous work and seem to overcome criticisms to which this has been subject.

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Authors
Bernardo, J. M.
Venue
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1979-01-01
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
113-128
ISSN
  • 1369-7412 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9868
DOI
10.1111/j.2517-6161.1979.tb01066.x
OpenAlex
W69468016
Cited by
1,095
References
4
FWCI
7.60
Type
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Language
en
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