On the Certainty of an Inductive Inference: The Binomial Case

Title: On the Certainty of an Inductive Inference: The Binomial Case
Creator: Tuyl, Frank; Gerlach, Richard; Mengersen, Kerrie
Relation: Statistical Science Vol. 39, Issue 2, p. 355-356
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/23-STS913
Publisher: Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2024
Description: In the context of the binomial distribution, the potential need for a prior point mass on θ=0(1), given x=0(n), was identified more than 100 years ago by Jeffreys. Given previous proposals to implement such a point mass, a slightly different approach is proposed, followed by the corresponding posterior probability of “homogeneity” and posterior predictive distribution.
Subject: Bayesian inference; Laplace's rule of succession; point mass; homogeneity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1506056
Identifier: uon:55807
Identifier: ISSN:0883-4237
Language: eng
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