A generalization of Jeffreys' rule for non regular models

Francisco J. Ortega and Jesús Basulto

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2016, vol. 45, issue 15, 4433-4444

Abstract: We propose a generalization of the one-dimensional Jeffreys' rule in order to obtain non informative prior distributions for non regular models, taking into account the comments made by Jeffreys in his article of 1946. These non informatives are parameterization invariant and the Bayesian intervals have good behavior in frequentist inference. In some important cases, we can generate non informative distributions for multi-parameter models with non regular parameters. In non regular models, the Bayesian method offers a satisfactory solution to the inference problem and also avoids the problem that the maximum likelihood estimator has with these models. Finally, we obtain non informative distributions in job-search and deterministic frontier production homogenous models.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2014.921303

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