Bayesian Regression and Credibility Theory

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/472 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/472 http://eprints.org/relation/isCoversheetVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/472 archive 351 disk0/00/00/04/53 2016-01-15 01:42:45 2021-08-27 17:08:08 2016-01-15 01:42:45 monograph show 2 Jewell W.S. Bayesian Regression and Credibility Theory pub iis_met iis_mod prog_sds The development of a Bayesian theory of regression requires special distributional assumptions and rather complicated calculations. In this paper, general formulae for predicting the mean values of the regression coefficients and the mean outcomes of future experiments are developed using the methods of credibility theory, a linearized Bayesian analysis originally used in actuarial problems. No special distributional assumptions on prior or error distributions are needed, and heteroscedastic errors in both the dependent and independent variables are permitted. The first group of formulae hold for arbitrary design matrices and dimensionality of input, since, as common in Bayesian methods, there are none of the usual problems of identifiability. However, in the event that the design matrix has full rank, the credibility results are equivalent to a linear mixture of the prior mean prediction and the classical (generalized) least-squares regression predictor; thus, the credibility result provides a bridge between full Bayesian methods and classical estimators. One can also find easily the preposterior covariance matrix for the credibility estimators, and it is shown that prior information and the results from prior experiments can be cascaded in a particularly intuitive manner. Many special applications of the credibility formulae are possible because of the generality of the assumptions. 1975-11 published RM-75-063 RM-75-063 10 public research_memorandum IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria 34 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/book