A Simulation Approach to Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Analysis

Petros Dellaportas and Dimitris Karlis

International Statistical Review, 2001, vol. 69, issue 1, 63-79

Abstract: We deal with general mixture of hierarchical models of the form m(x) = føf(x |θ) g (θ)dθ, where g(θ) and m(x) are called mixing and mixed or compound densities respectively, and θ is called the mixing parameter. The usual statistical application of these models emerges when we have data xi, i = 1,…,n with densities f(xi|θi) for given θi, and the θ1 are independent with common density g(θ). For a certain well known class of densities f(x |θ), we present a sample‐based approach to reconstruct g(θ). We first provide theoretical results and then we use, in an empirical Bayes spirit, the first four moments of the data to estimate the first four moments of g(θ). By using sampling techniques we proceed in a fully Bayesian fashion to obtain any posterior summaries of interest. Simulations which investigate the operating characteristics of our proposed methodology are presented. We illustrate our approach using data from mixed Poisson and mixed exponential densities.

Date: 2001
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