1st Edition

Empirical Bayes Methods

By J. S. Maritz Copyright 1989
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1970; with a second edition in 1989. Empirical Bayes methods use some of the apparatus of the pure Bayes approach, but an actual prior distribution is assumed to generate the data sequence. It can be estimated thus producing empirical Bayes estimates or decision rules. In this second edition, details are provided of the derivation and the performance of empirical Bayes... Read more

Preface. Notation and abbreviations. 1. Introduction to Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods 2. Estimation of the Prior Distribution 3. Empirical Bayes Point Estimation 4. Empirical Bayes Point Estimation: Vector Parameters 5. Testing of Hypotheses 6. Bayes and Empirical Bayes Interval Estimation 7. Alternatives to Empirical Bayes 8. Applications of EB methods

Biography

J. S. Maritz, T. Lwin