Objective Prior Distributions to Estimate the Parameters of the Poisson-Exponential Distribution

In this paper, a set of important objective priors are examined for the Bayesian estimation of the parameters present in the Poisson-Exponential distribution P E. We derived the multivariate Jeffreys prior and the Maximal Data Information Prior. Reference prior and others priors proposed in the lite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Moala, Fernando A. [UNESP], Moraes, Gustavo [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/248264
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/rce.v46n1.95989
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/248264
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bayesian
Jeffreys
MDIP
Objective
Poisson-Exponential
Prior
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Sumario:In this paper, a set of important objective priors are examined for the Bayesian estimation of the parameters present in the Poisson-Exponential distribution P E. We derived the multivariate Jeffreys prior and the Maximal Data Information Prior. Reference prior and others priors proposed in the literature are also analyzed. We show that the posterior densities resulting from these approaches are proper although the respective priors are improper. Monte Carlo simulations are used to compare the efficiencies and to assess the sensitivity of the choice of the priors, mainly for small sample sizes. This simulation study shows that the mean square error, mean bias and coverage probability of credible intervals under Gamma, Jeffreys' rule and Box & Tiao priors presented equal results, whereas Jeffreys and Reference priors showed the best results. The MDIP prior had a worse performance in all analyzed situations showing not to be indicated for Bayesian analysis of the P E distribution. A real data set is analyzed for illustrative purpose of the Bayesian approaches.