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Simultaneous prediction of independent Poisson observables

Statistics Theory 2007-06-13 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Simultaneous predictive distributions for independent Poisson observables are investigated. A class of improper prior distributions for Poisson means is introduced. The Bayesian predictive distributions based on priors from the introduced class are shown to be admissible under the Kullback-Leibler loss. A Bayesian predictive distribution based on a prior in this class dominates the Bayesian predictive distribution based on the Jeffreys prior.

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@article{arxiv.math/0410094,
  title  = {Simultaneous prediction of independent Poisson observables},
  author = {Fumiyasu Komaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0410094},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000445

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