A Bayesian Look at Inverse Linear Regression

Abstract

Abstract The model considered in this paper is simple linear regression , and the problem is to make statistical inferences about an unknown value of x corresponding to one or more additional observed values of y. The maximum likelihood estimator x of x and the classical (1 - α) 100% confidence set S for x have some undesirable properties. For example, has infinite mean square error and > 0. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that insight and understanding, as well as a useful class of solutions, can be obtained by looking at the problem from a Bayesian point of view. A result which follows from a general Bayes solution is that the inverse estimator [4] is Bayes with respect to a particular informative prior.