Posterior propriety and admissibility of hyperpriors in normal hierarchical models

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dc.creatorBerger, James O.
dc.creatorStrawderman, William
dc.creatorTang, Dejun
dc.date2005-05-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:06:56Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:06:56Z
dc.descriptionHierarchical modeling is wonderful and here to stay, but hyperparameter priors are often chosen in a casual fashion. Unfortunately, as the number of hyperparameters grows, the effects of casual choices can multiply, leading to considerably inferior performance. As an extreme, but not uncommon, example use of the wrong hyperparameter priors can even lead to impropriety of the posterior. For exchangeable hierarchical multivariate normal models, we first determine when a standard class of hierarchical priors results in proper or improper posteriors. We next determine which elements of this class lead to admissible estimators of the mean under quadratic loss; such considerations provide one useful guideline for choice among hierarchical priors. Finally, computational issues with the resulting posterior distributions are addressed.
dc.descriptionPublished at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000075 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505605
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505605
dc.identifierAnnals of Statistics 2005, Vol. 33, No. 2, 606-646
dc.identifierdoi:10.1214/009053605000000075
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/130776
dc.subjectStatistics Theory
dc.subject62C15 (Primary) 62F15 (Secondary)
dc.titlePosterior propriety and admissibility of hyperpriors in normal hierarchical models
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