Some approximation results for Bayesian Posteriors that involve the Hurwitz-Lerch Zeta distribution

Consider the generalized Poisson and the negative binomial model with mean parameter equal to kb, where k >= 0 is a count parameter and 0 < b < 1 is a hyper parameter. We show that conditioning on counts from both models and assuming a uniform prior fork lead to the following Bayesian poste...

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Main Authors: Li, Hongxiang, Khang, Tsung Fei
Format: Article
Published: Springer Verlag 2023
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/38521/
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Summary:Consider the generalized Poisson and the negative binomial model with mean parameter equal to kb, where k >= 0 is a count parameter and 0 < b < 1 is a hyper parameter. We show that conditioning on counts from both models and assuming a uniform prior fork lead to the following Bayesian posterior distributions: (i) geometric for conditioning value of 0; (ii) extended negative binomial for conditioning value of 1; (iii) approximately extended Hurwitz-Lerch zeta distribution for conditioning value of 2 or more. Kullback-Leibler divergence for measuring the quality of the approximating distributions for some combinations of b and the mean-variance ratio is given.