Benchmark Priors Revisited : On Adaptive Shrinkage and the Supermodel Effect in Bayesian Model Averaging /

Default prior choices fixing Zellner's g are predominant in the Bayesian Model Averaging literature, but tend to concentrate posterior mass on a tiny set of models. The paper demonstrates this supermodel effect and proposes to address it by a hyper-g prior, whose data-dependent shrinkage adapts...

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Autor principal: Feldkircher, Martin
Altres autors: Zeugner, Stefan
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/202
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF