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On Bayesian learning from Bernoulli observations

Statistics Theory 2010-06-08 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We provide a reason for Bayesian updating, in the Bernoulli case, even when it is assumed that observations are independent and identically distributed with a fixed but unknown parameter θ0\theta_0. The motivation relies on the use of loss functions and asymptotics. Such a justification is important due to the recent interest and focus on Bayesian consistency which indeed assumes that the observations are independent and identically distributed rather than being conditionally independent with joint distribution depending on the choice of prior.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2544,
  title  = {On Bayesian learning from Bernoulli observations},
  author = {Pier Giovanni Bissiri and Stephen G. Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2544},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This is a personal 19-pages manuscript version of the article that has been accepted for publication by Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

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