Thursday, Aug 8: 9:35 AM - 9:50 AM
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Contributed Papers
Oregon Convention Center
Bayesian studies to date involving the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (COM-Poisson) distribution have little discussion of non- and weakly-informative priors. This work considers various priors and evaluates their influence on the COM-Poisson model via an empirical study under varying dispersion types and sample sizes.
dispersion
over-dispersion
under-dispersion
Bayesian methodology
count data
Main Sponsor
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science