Seymour Geisser Distinguished Lecture  October 2, 2008
University of Minnesota
School of Statistics
College
of Liberal Arts

Objective Priors: A Selective Review

Malay Ghosh
Department of Statistics
  University of Florida

Thursday, October 2, 2008
3:30 PM, 170 Physics
Minneapolis, East Bank Campus
Social following seminar at 4:30 PM, 300 Ford Hall

 

Abstract

The paper discusses some of the criteria used in the selection of `objective' priors. The emphasis is on a general class of divergence priors as well as matching priors. Under these two general criteria, I will be able to find some priors different from Jeffreys' prior even in the one-parameter case without any nuisance parameters. I will mention two useful tools which are used in the development of these general classes of priors. These tools are also useful in certain frequentist calculations which I will point out.