Poisson empirical Bayes estimation: When does g-modeling beat f-modeling in theory (and in practice)?
泊松经验贝叶斯估计:何时先验建模优于边际建模?
Empirical Bayes (EB) is a popular framework for large-scale inference that aims to find data-driven estimators to compete with the Bayesian oracle that knows the true prior. Two principled approaches to EB estimation have emerged over the years: f-modeling, which constructs an approximate Bayes rule by estimating the marginal distribution of the data, and g-modeling, which estimates the prior from data and then applies the learned Bayes rule. For the Poisson model, the…