Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Analysis

Nikolaos Ignatiadis and Stefan Wager

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2022, vol. 117, issue 539, 1149-1166

Abstract: In an empirical Bayes analysis, we use data from repeated sampling to imitate inferences made by an oracle Bayesian with extensive knowledge of the data-generating distribution. Existing results provide a comprehensive characterization of when and why empirical Bayes point estimates accurately recover oracle Bayes behavior. In this paper, we develop flexible and practical confidence intervals that provide asymptotic frequentist coverage of empirical Bayes estimands, such as the posterior mean or the local false sign rate. The coverage statements hold even when the estimands are only partially identified or when empirical Bayes point estimates converge very slowly. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2021.2008403

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