Mathematics – Statistics Theory
Scientific paper
2006-11-22
IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series 2006, Vol. 50, 112-126
Mathematics
Statistics Theory
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921706000000635 in the IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series (http://www.imstat.org/
Scientific paper
10.1214/074921706000000635
For estimating a positive normal mean, Zhang and Woodroofe (2003) as well as Roe and Woodroofe (2000) investigate 100($1-\alpha)%$ HPD credible sets associated with priors obtained as the truncation of noninformative priors onto the restricted parameter space. Namely, they establish the attractive lower bound of $\frac{1-\alpha}{1+\alpha}$ for the frequentist coverage probability of these procedures. In this work, we establish that the lower bound of $\frac{1-\alpha}{1+\alpha}$ is applicable for a substantially more general setting with underlying distributional symmetry, and obtain various other properties. The derivations are unified and are driven by the choice of a right Haar invariant prior. Investigations of non-symmetric models are carried out and similar results are obtained. Namely, (i) we show that the lower bound $\frac{1-\alpha}{1+\alpha}$ still applies for certain types of asymmetry (or skewness), and (ii) we extend results obtained by Zhang and Woodroofe (2002) for estimating the scale parameter of a Fisher distribution; which arises in estimating the ratio of variance components in a one-way balanced random effects ANOVA. Finally, various examples illustrating the wide scope of applications are expanded upon. Examples include estimating parameters in location models and location-scale models, estimating scale parameters in scale models, estimating linear combinations of location parameters such as differences, estimating ratios of scale parameters, and problems with non-independent observations.
Marchand Éric
Strawderman William E.
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