Journal
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 319-339Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-011-0301-1
Keywords
Likelihood uncertainty; Outliers; Robust posterior distribution; Weighted likelihood
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- MIUR [PRIN 2008MRFM2H, PRIN 2008AHWTJ4]
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The sensitivity of posterior inferences to model specification can be considered as an indicator of the presence of outliers, that are to be considered as highly unlikely values under the assumed model. The occurrence of anomalous values can seriously alter the shape of the likelihood function and lead to posterior distributions far from those one would obtain without these data inadequacies. In order to deal with these hindrances, a robust approach is discussed, which allows us to obtain outliers' resistant posterior distributions with properties similar to those of a proper posterior distribution. The methodology is based on the replacement of the genuine likelihood by a weighted likelihood function in the Bayes' formula.
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