Bayesian revision of a prior given prior-data conflict, expert opinion, or a similar insight: a large-deviation approach

DOI10.1080/02331888.2018.1427752zbMath1401.62036OpenAlexW2222872202MaRDI QIDQ4567918

David R. Bickel

Publication date: 20 June 2018

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34089

zbMATH Keywords

model checkingBayesian model averagingmodel criticismmodel assessmentposterior predictive checkprior predictive check

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Large deviations (60F10)

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