Local Model Influence
模型的局部影响
This article develops a general method for assessing the influence of model assumptions in a Bayesian analysis. We assume that model choices are indexed by a hyperparameter with some given initial choice. We use the term “model” to encompass both the sampling model and the prior distribution. We wish to assess the effect of changing the hyperparameter away from the initial choice. We are performing a sensitivity analysis, with the hyperparameter defining our perturbations.…