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. 2020 Jun;76(2):599-601.
doi: 10.1111/biom.13254. Epub 2020 Apr 6.

Discussion on "Predictively consistent prior effective sample sizes," by Beat Neuenschwander, Sebastian Weber, Heinz Schmidli, and Anthony O'Hagan

Gary L Rosner  1 , Peter Müller  2
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Discussion on "Predictively consistent prior effective sample sizes," by Beat Neuenschwander, Sebastian Weber, Heinz Schmidli, and Anthony O'Hagan

Gary L Rosner et al. Biometrics. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Neuenschwander et al. address a seemingly easy but often complicated problem in applied Bayesian methodology. We discuss some issues that relate to the question of why one might care about the effective sample size ( ESS ) in a Bayesian model and the motivation for reporting the ESS .

Keywords: entropy; informative prior; sample size; statistical information.

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