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Nearly minimax empirical Bayesian prediction of independent Poisson observables

Statistics Theory 2024-02-13 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this study, simultaneous predictive distributions for independent Poisson observables were considered and the performance of predictive distributions was evaluated using the Kullback-Leibler (K-L) loss. This study proposes a class of empirical Bayesian predictive distributions that dominate the Bayesian predictive distribution based on the Jeffreys prior. The K-L risk of the empirical Bayesian predictive distributions is demonstrated to be less than 1.04 times the minimax lower bound.

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@article{arxiv.2310.02004,
  title  = {Nearly minimax empirical Bayesian prediction of independent Poisson observables},
  author = {Xiao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02004},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.14618