Comment on 'Bayes' Theorem in the 21st Century' by Bradley Efron

Autor:	Amrhein, Valentin, Roth, Tobias, Korner-Nievergelt, Fraenzi
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Mathematics - Statistics Theory
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In a Perspectives article in Science, Bradley Efron concludes that Bayesian calculations cannot be uncritically accepted when using uninformative priors. We argue that this conclusion is problematic because Efron's example does not use data, hence it is not Bayesian statistics; his priors make little sense and are not uninformative; and using the available data point and an uninformative prior actually leads to a reasonable posterior distribution. Comment: 3 pages
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0447 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv