Publication: On integral priors for multiple comparison in Bayesian model selection
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Date
2026-02-16
Authors
Salmerón Martínez, Diego ; Cano, Juan Antonio ; Robert, Christian P.
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Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Medicina
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Publisher
Wiley
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.70028
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
Noninformative priors constructed for estimation purposes are usually not appropriate for model selection and testing. The methodology of integral priors was developed to get prior distributions for Bayesian model selection when comparing two models, modifying initial improper reference priors. We propose a generalisation of this methodology to more than two models. Our approach adds an artificial copy of each model under comparison by compactifying the parametric space and creating an ergodic Markov chain across all models that returns the integral priors as marginals of the stationary distribution. Besides the guarantee of their existence and the lack of paradoxes attached to estimation reference priors, an additional advantage of this methodology is that the simulation of this Markov chain is straightforward as it only requires simulations of imaginary training samples for all models and from the corresponding posterior distributions. We present some examples, including situations where other methodologies need specific adjustments or do not produce a satisfactory answer.
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Citation
International Statistical Review, 2026, Early View
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