Posterior Distributions

Posterior Distributions is a probability distribution that represents the updated beliefs about a parameter after observing data, derived by applying Bayes' theorem to combine the prior distribution with the likelihood function.

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Variants

Posterior Distribution

Parents

Bayesian BiostatisticsBayesian Data Analysis

Children

Empirical Bayes Posterior AnalysisHierarchical Posterior ModelingHighest Posterior Density IntervalsLaplace ApproximationMarkov Chain Monte Carlo Posterior SamplingPosterior AsymptoticsPosterior CalibrationPosterior Concentration RatesPosterior ContractionPosterior Credible Intervals

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A Bayesian Analysis of Some Nonparametric Problems

Thomas S. Ferguson · The Annals of Statistics · 1973 · 4.8K citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Bayesian Data Analysis +15

The Calculation of Posterior Distributions by Data Augmentation

Martin A. Tanner, Wing Hung Wong · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1987 · 3.8K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +17

Agreeing to Disagree

Robert J. Aumann · The Annals of Statistics · 1976 · 2.5K citations

Computing, Social Psychology, Bayesian Data Analysis +11

Bayesian Density Estimation and Inference Using Mixtures

Michael Escobar, Mike West · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1995 · 2.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Probability Theory +16

Multitarget bayes filtering via first-order multitarget moments

Ronald Mahler · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2003 · 2.2K citations

Computing, Systems Engineering, Probability Theory +16

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Lennart Svensson
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
11 publications · 589 citations
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Ángel F. García‐Fernández
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
11 publications · 532 citations
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Subhashis Ghosal
North Carolina State University, United States
9 publications · 1.4K citations
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Arnold Zellner
University of Chicago, United States
9 publications · 1.5K citations
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Stephen G. Walker
University of Kent, United Kingdom
8 publications · 466 citations
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Journal of the American Statistical Association
70 publications · 17.2K citations
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The Annals of Statistics
59 publications · 13.6K citations
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Biometrika
33 publications · 2.2K citations
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
32 publications · 5.1K citations
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Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods
43 publications · 1.2K citations
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