Prior specification in Bayesian statistics: Three cautionary tales

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-100

  Van Dongen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Prior specification; Subjective; Uninformative prior; Weak prior

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; WING;

EID: 33746878290     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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