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Conjugacy class prior distributions on metric‐based ranking models
Author(s) -
Gupta Jayanti,
Damien Paul
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series b (statistical methodology)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.523
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1467-9868
pISSN - 1369-7412
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9868.00343
Subject(s) - metric (unit) , class (philosophy) , ranking (information retrieval) , computer science , conjugacy class , mathematics , artificial intelligence , discrete mathematics , engineering , operations management
Summary. A new class of prior distributions for metric‐based models in the analysis of fully and partially ranked data is developed. This class is attractive because it provides a meaningful way to encapsulate prior information about the parameters of the model. Three examples illustrate the ideas developed in the paper.