The Prior Can Often Only Be Understood in the Context of the Likelihood

A key sticking point of Bayesian analysis is the choice of prior distribution, and there is a vast literature on potential defaults including uniform priors, Jeffreys’ priors, reference priors, maximum entropy priors, and weakly informative priors. These methods, however, often manifest a key concep...

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Main Authors: Andrew Gelman, Daniel Simpson, Michael Betancourt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/10/555