Empirical Bayes for compound adaptive experiments
复合自适应实验中的经验贝叶斯方法
We investigate Empirical Bayes (EB) methods in the context of compound adaptive experiments, where the arm distribution in each experiment follows a normal distribution with an unknown mean that we seek to estimate. There are two main EB strategies: $g$-modeling, which estimates the prior by maximizing the marginal likelihood, and $f$-modeling, which derives posterior means directly from the empirical distribution of the observations. We show that $g$-modeling continues to…