Comparison of prior distributions for bayesian inference for small proportions

Often, Bayesian analyses for epidemiological applications use objective prior distributions. These prior distributions are chosen with the goal of allowing the posterior distribution to be determined by the observed data alone. While this is achieved in most situations, it is not the case for Bayesi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Guoyuan
Other Authors: Elham Rahme (Supervisor2)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2011
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96917