7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Stable priors for Bayes Factors

8 Jul 2014, 17:10
1h 50m
D Ring ground level

D Ring ground level

Board: G.239
Poster Presentation Track G - Theoretical and Computational Physics Poster1

Speaker

Dr Michiel De Kock (University of Stellenbosch)

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Constructing reference priors for parameter spaces usually results in a proliferation of metaparameters. Bayes Factors, for example, require proper priors, and the usual class of ignorance priors then necessarily results in two metaparameters for every parameter, namely an upper and lower bound. With the goal of reducing the number of
metaparameters, we replace ignorance priors by stable priors which are based on a stability property and consistent transformations between the parameters. We illustrate the procedure with an example from High-Energy Physics where we use Bayes Factors with stable priors to compare different parametrisations.

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof. Hans Eggers
eggers@physics.sun.ac.za
University of Stellenbosch

Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?

No

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

No

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

PhD

Primary author

Dr Michiel De Kock (University of Stellenbosch)

Co-author

Prof. Hans Eggers (University of Stellenbosch)

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