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    Objective Bayesian Analysis of Skew- t Distributions

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    Authors
    BRANCO, MARCIA D'ELIA
    Genton, Marc G. cc
    LISEO, BRUNERO
    KAUST Grant Number
    KUS-C1-016-04
    Date
    2012-02-27
    Online Publication Date
    2012-02-27
    Print Publication Date
    2013-03
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599026
    
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    Abstract
    We study the Jeffreys prior and its properties for the shape parameter of univariate skew-t distributions with linear and nonlinear Student's t skewing functions. In both cases, we show that the resulting priors for the shape parameter are symmetric around zero and proper. Moreover, we propose a Student's t approximation of the Jeffreys prior that makes an objective Bayesian analysis easy to perform. We carry out a Monte Carlo simulation study that demonstrates an overall better behaviour of the maximum a posteriori estimator compared with the maximum likelihood estimator. We also compare the frequentist coverage of the credible intervals based on the Jeffreys prior and its approximation and show that they are similar. We further discuss location-scale models under scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions and show some conditions for the existence of the posterior distribution and its moments. Finally, we present three numerical examples to illustrate the implications of our results on inference for skew-t distributions. © 2012 Board of the Foundation of the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.
    Citation
    BRANCO MD, GENTON MG, LISEO B (2012) Objective Bayesian Analysis of Skew- t Distributions . Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 40: 63–85. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00779.x.
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    Branco's research was partially supported by FAPESP grant 04/15304-6. Genton's research was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1007504. This publication is based in part on work supported by award no. KUS-C1-016-04 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors thank the editor, an associate editor and a referee for their helpful comments and suggestions.
    Publisher
    Wiley
    Journal
    Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
    DOI
    10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00779.x
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00779.x
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