Bayes, Oracle Bayes, and Empirical Bayes

• Autores: Bradley Efron
• Localización: Statistical science, ISSN 0883-4237, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 177-201
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1214/18-sts674
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• Resumen

  • This article concerns the Bayes and frequentist aspects of empirical Bayes inference. Some of the ideas explored go back to Robbins in the 1950s, while others are current. Several examples are discussed, real and artificial, illustrating the two faces of empirical Bayes methodology: “oracle Bayes” shows empirical Bayes in its most frequentist mode, while “finite Bayes inference” is a fundamentally Bayesian application. In either case, modern theory and computation allow us to present a sharp finite-sample picture of what is at stake in an empirical Bayes analysis.