Single observation unbiased priors
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单观测无偏先验
- 研究问题
- 用于小区域参数汇总的贝叶斯预测中，怎样的默认先验能使单次观测的后验均值无偏，并满足推断的合并不变性？
- 方法与思路
- 作者定义单观测无偏先验SOUP，利用分布族之间的构造性对偶寻找此类先验，并以O完备性研究其唯一性。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，在相应正则条件下，卷积参数的合并不变推断要求SOUP；作者还给出先验由后验均值唯一刻画的判据。
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原文摘要
This paper studies a class of default priors, which we call single observation unbiased priors (SOUP). A prior for a parameter is a SOUP if the corresponding posterior mean of the parameter based on a single observation is an unbiased estimator of the parameter. We prove that, under mild regularity conditions, a default prior for a convolution parameter is "noninformative" in the sense of yielding a posterior inference invariant under amalgamation only if it is a SOUP. Therefore, when amalgamation invariance is desirable, as in our motivating example of performing imputation for census undercount, SOUP is the only possible coherent "noninformative" prior for Bayesian predictions that will be utilized under aggregation. The use of SOUP also mutually calibrates Bayesian and frequentist inferences for aggregates of convolution parameters across many small areas. We describe approaches that identify SOUPs in many common models, in particular a constructive duality method that identifies SOUPs in pairs of distribution families. We introduce O-completeness, a necessary and sufficient condition for a prior distribution to be uniquely characterized by the corresponding posterior mean. Uniqueness of the SOUP is determined by the O-completeness of the dual family. O-completeness of a natural exponential family is implied by its completeness. Hence, the Diaconis-Ylvisaker characterization of the conjugate prior for natural exponential families via linear posterior expectation is a direct consequence of the completeness of such families. For most of the examples we have examined, the inverse of the variance function is the SOUP for the mean parameter of the corresponding family, suggesting that Hartigan's results on asymptotic unbiasedness can be generalized to some families with discrete parameters. We also discuss a possible extension of Berger's result on the inadmissibility of unbiased estimators, as the nonexistence of SOUP can be a first step in establishing such inadmissibility.