Important features of multivariate linear regression are emphasised and a selection of prior distributions discussed. Priors used by Brown and Zidek (1978) lead them to a class of 'empirical' Bayes shrinkage estimates. The strength of shrinkage is examined with respect to an election forecasting example where observations obtain one after another.
CONTENTSPreface......................................................................................................................................................... 5ABSTRACT LOGICS (by D. J. Brown and E. Suszko)Introduction.................................................................................................................................................. 9I. Elementary properties of closure systems and closure operations............................................. 10II. Some properties...
We consider almost-complex structures on whose total Chern classes differ from that of the standard (integrable) almost-complex structure. E. Thomas established the existence of many such structures. We show that if there exists an “exotic” integrable almost-complex structures, then the resulting complex manifold would have specific Hodge numbers which do not vanish. We also give a necessary condition for the nondegeneration of the Frölicher spectral sequence at the second level.
Discussion on the papers by Mouchart, Michel and Simar, Léopold, Least squares approximation in Bayesian analysis and by Lindley, Dennis V., Approximate Bayesian methods, both of them part of a round table on Approximations held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
Discussion on the papers by Makov, Udi E., Approximation of unsupervised Bayes learning procedures, Smith, Adrian F. M., Change-Point problems: approaches and applications and by Harrison, P. J. and Smith Jim Q., Discontinuity, decision and conflict, the three of them part of a round table on Sequential learning, discontinuities and changes held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
Discussion on the papers by Freeman, Peter R., On the number of outliers in data from a linear model and by Box, George E. P., Sampling inference, Bayes' inference and robustness in the advancement of learning, both of them part of a round table on Sensitivity to models held in the First International Congress on Bayesian Methods (Valencia, Spain, 28 May - 2 June 1979).
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