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Given the limited length of standard macroeconomic datasets relative to the vast number of parameters available, Bayesian methods have become an increasingly popular way of dealing with the problem of over-parameterization. As the ratio of variables to observations increases, the role of prior probabilities becomes increasingly important.
This is because MAP estimates are point estimates, and depend on the arbitrary choice of reference measure, whereas Bayesian methods are characterized by the use of distributions to summarize data and draw inferences: thus, Bayesian methods tend to report the posterior mean or median instead, together with credible intervals.
In Bayesian statistics, the Jeffreys prior is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space. Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys , [ 1 ] its density function is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix:
An informative prior expresses specific, definite information about a variable. An example is a prior distribution for the temperature at noon tomorrow. A reasonable approach is to make the prior a normal distribution with expected value equal to today's noontime temperature, with variance equal to the day-to-day variance of atmospheric temperature, or a distribution of the temperature for ...
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Consider a data set (,), …, (,), where the are Euclidean vectors and the are scalars.The multiple regression model is formulated as = +. where the are random errors. Zellner's g-prior for is a multivariate normal distribution with covariance matrix proportional to the inverse Fisher information matrix for , similar to a Jeffreys prior.
Indeed, parameters of prior distributions may themselves have prior distributions, leading to Bayesian hierarchical modeling, [12] [13] [14] also known as multi-level modeling. A special case is Bayesian networks. For conducting a Bayesian statistical analysis, best practices are discussed by van de Schoot et al. [15]
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