Bayes, oracle Bayes and empirical Bayes

DOI10.1214/18-STS674zbMath1420.62023OpenAlexW2964344918WikidataQ127486336 ScholiaQ127486336MaRDI QIDQ2325626

Efron, Bradley

Publication date: 27 September 2019

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1563501631

zbMATH Keywords

relevance\(g\)-modelingempirical Bayes regretfinite Bayes inference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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Uses Software

• ElemStatLearn

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