Subjective Elicitation of Dirichlet Hyperparameters Using Past Data: A Study of Ovarian Cancer Patients

Elicitation of prior plays a very important role in Bayesian paradigm especially when dealing with rare disease problems in medical field. The reason being that we do not get enough data to draw valid inferences always. Since the subject of study is human population, one cannot do experiments with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Akanksha Gupta, S K Upadhyay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2019-01-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/814