Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations
<p>A fundamental problem in Bayesian nonparametrics consists of selecting a prior distribution by assuming that the corresponding predictive probabilities obey certain properties. An early discussion of such a problem, although in a parametric framework, dates back to the seminal work by Engli...
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| author | Battison, M Bacallado, S Trippa, L Favaro, S |
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| description | <p>A fundamental problem in Bayesian nonparametrics consists of selecting a prior distribution by assuming that the corresponding predictive probabilities obey certain properties. An early discussion of such a problem, although in a parametric framework, dates back to the seminal work by English philosopher W. E. Johnson, who introduced a noteworthy characterization for the predictive probabilities of the symmetric Dirichlet prior distribution. This is typically referred to as Johnson's "sufficientness" postulate. In this paper we review some nonparametric generalizations of Johnson's postulate for a class of nonparametric priors known as species sampling models. In particular we revisit and discuss the "sufficientness" postulate for the two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet prior within the more general framework of Gibbstype priors and their hierarchical generalizations.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:101ed398-9c63-4ffe-8c3c-ce2eb52bb2c12022-03-26T09:54:49ZSufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizationsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:101ed398-9c63-4ffe-8c3c-ce2eb52bb2c1Symplectic Elements at OxfordInstitute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)2017Battison, MBacallado, STrippa, LFavaro, S<p>A fundamental problem in Bayesian nonparametrics consists of selecting a prior distribution by assuming that the corresponding predictive probabilities obey certain properties. An early discussion of such a problem, although in a parametric framework, dates back to the seminal work by English philosopher W. E. Johnson, who introduced a noteworthy characterization for the predictive probabilities of the symmetric Dirichlet prior distribution. This is typically referred to as Johnson's "sufficientness" postulate. In this paper we review some nonparametric generalizations of Johnson's postulate for a class of nonparametric priors known as species sampling models. In particular we revisit and discuss the "sufficientness" postulate for the two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet prior within the more general framework of Gibbstype priors and their hierarchical generalizations.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Battison, M Bacallado, S Trippa, L Favaro, S Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title | Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title_full | Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title_fullStr | Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title_short | Sufficientness postulates for Gibbs-type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
| title_sort | sufficientness postulates for gibbs type priors and hierarchical generalizations |
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