- 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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