Empirical Bayes and Conditional Inference with Many Nuisance Parameters
大量干扰参数下的经验贝叶斯与条件推断
This paper concerns the use of empirical Bayes methods to improve the efficiency of a parameter of interest, θ, in the presence of many nuisance parameters, {øi}, one from each data stratum. A class of distributions is introduced such that for fixed θ, the minimal sufficient statistic ti(θ) for øi is from an exponential family and hence complete. By imposing the assumption that the øi's are generated from an unspecified distribution function Q, we show that for this class of…