On the Sensitivity of Bayes Factors to the Prior Distributions

DOI10.1198/000313002137zbMath1182.62054OpenAlexW2006011720WikidataQ58291725 ScholiaQ58291725MaRDI QIDQ5189908

Sandip Sinharay, Hal S. Stern

Publication date: 11 March 2010

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1198/000313002137

zbMATH Keywords

sensitivity analysisnested modelsgeneralized linear mixed modelvariance component model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10)

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