Empirical Evaluation of Prior Beliefs about Frequencies: Methodology and a Case Study in Congenital Heart Disease
频率先验信念的实证检验:方法与先天性心脏病案例
We consider the problem of critiquing prior beliefs concerning the distribution of a discrete random variable in the light of a sequentially obtained sample. A topical application concerns a probabilistic expert system for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease, which requires specification of a large number of conditional probabilities that are initially imprecisely estimated by a suitable “expert.” These prior beliefs may be formally updated as data become available,…