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An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule
In this paper, we introduce a novel objective prior distribution levering on the connections between information, divergence and scoring rules. In particular, we do so from the starting point of convex functions representing information in density functions. This provides a natural route to proper l...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34210047 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23070833 |
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author | Walker, Stephen G. Villa, Cristiano |
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description | In this paper, we introduce a novel objective prior distribution levering on the connections between information, divergence and scoring rules. In particular, we do so from the starting point of convex functions representing information in density functions. This provides a natural route to proper local scoring rules using Bregman divergence. Specifically, we determine the prior which solves setting the score function to be a constant. Although in itself this provides motivation for an objective prior, the prior also minimizes a corresponding information criterion. |
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spelling | pubmed-83080182021-07-25 An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule Walker, Stephen G. Villa, Cristiano Entropy (Basel) Article In this paper, we introduce a novel objective prior distribution levering on the connections between information, divergence and scoring rules. In particular, we do so from the starting point of convex functions representing information in density functions. This provides a natural route to proper local scoring rules using Bregman divergence. Specifically, we determine the prior which solves setting the score function to be a constant. Although in itself this provides motivation for an objective prior, the prior also minimizes a corresponding information criterion. MDPI 2021-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8308018/ /pubmed/34210047 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23070833 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Walker, Stephen G. Villa, Cristiano An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title | An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title_full | An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title_fullStr | An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title_full_unstemmed | An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title_short | An Objective Prior from a Scoring Rule |
title_sort | objective prior from a scoring rule |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34210047 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23070833 |
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