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An enriched conjugate prior for Bayesian nonparametric inference [PDF]
Bayesian Analysis, 2011 The precision parameter plays an important role in the Dirichlet Pro- cess. When assigning a Dirichlet Process prior to the set of probability measures on R k , k > 1, this can be restrictive in the sense that the variability is determined by a single parameter.
Sara Wade +2 more
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Non-conjugate Prior Distribution Assessment for Multivariate Normal Sampling [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 2001 Summary Elicitation methods are proposed for quantifying expert opinion about a multivariate normal sampling model. The natural conjugate prior family imposes a relationship between the mean vector and the covariance matrix that can portray an expert's opinion poorly.
Paul H. Garthwaite +1 more
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Extensions of the conjugate prior through the Kullback–Leibler separators
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2003 AbstractThe conjugate prior for the exponential family, referred to also as the natural conjugate prior, is represented in terms of the Kullback–Leibler separator. This representation permits us to extend the conjugate prior to that for a general family of sampling distributions.
Takemi Yanagimoto, Toshio Ohnishi
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Bayesian nonparametric point estimation under a conjugate prior
Statistics & Probability Letters, 2002 Abstract Estimation of a nonparametric regression function at a point is considered. The function is assumed to lie in a Sobolev space, Sq, of order q. The asymptotic squared-error performance of Bayes estimators corresponding to Gaussian priors is investigated as the sample size, n, increases.
Xuefeng Li, Linda Zhao
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Prevalence and epidemiology of meningococcal carriage in Southern Ethiopia prior to implementation of MenAfriVac, a conjugate vaccine [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016 Background Neisseria meningitidis colonizes humans and transmits mainly by asymptomatic carriage. We sought to determine the prevalence and epidemiology of meningococcal carriage in Ethiopia prior to the introduction of MenAfriVac, a serogroup A ...
Guro K. Bårnes +9 more
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Mathematics, 2022 Positive, continuous, and right-skewed data are fit by a mixture of gamma and inverse gamma distributions. For 16 hierarchical models of gamma and inverse gamma distributions, there are only 8 of them that have conjugate priors.
Li Zhang, Ying-Ying Zhang
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Statistical inference based on k-records [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization, 2008 In this paper, an extension of record models, well known as k-records, is considered. Bayesian estimation as well as prediction based on k-records are presented when the underlying distribution is assumed to have a general form. The proposed procedure is
J. Ahmadi, M. Doostparast
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Pharmaceutics, 2023 This study aimed to develop and evaluate nicotine--stearic acid conjugate-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (NSA-SLNs) for transdermal delivery in nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).
Jwala Renukuntla +6 more
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Bayesian Estimation of the Parameter of the Exponential Distribution with Different Priors under Symmetric and Asymmetric Loss Functions [PDF]
Engineering and Technology Journal, 2014 The objective of this study is to compare the performance of some Bayesian estimators for the shape parameter of the exponential distribution. We considered three priors: the extension of Jeffreys as non- informative prior information, as well as the ...
Tasnim H.K. AlBaldawi
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IEEE Access, 2020 This paper proposes a robust Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter with inaccurate process and measurement noise covariances. A derivation of the robust PMBM filter is provided for jointly estimating the kinematic state, the predicted state ...
Wenjuan Li, Hong Gu, Weimin Su
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