Dear David,
David Parkhurst wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what makes some Bayesian analyses "empirical" and
> others not, but I haven't been successful. Can someone please enlighten me?
Because all basesian methods are "empirical", the term is nonsense. Sometimes
it is used for methods which estimate the prior dist from the same data set as
in the main analyses...
A good introducion:
@book{Gelman97,
author = {Andrew Gelman and John B. Clarin and Hal S. Stern and Donald B.
Rubin},
title = {Bayesian Data Anaysis},
year = 1997,
publisher = {London: Chapman \& Hall}
}
Peter
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