ABSTRACT

The second edition of Empirical Bayes Methods details are provided of the derivation and the performance of empirical Bayes rules for a variety of special models. Attention is given to the problem of assessing the goodness of an empirical Bayes estimator for a given set of prior data. A chapter is devoted to a discussion of alternatives to the empirical Bayes approach and there is also a chapter giving details of several actual applications of empirical Bayes method.

chapter 2|37 pages

Estimation of the prior distribution

chapter 3|54 pages

Empirical Bayes point estimation

chapter 5|21 pages

Testing of hypotheses

chapter 7|37 pages

Alternatives to empirical Bayes

chapter 8|30 pages

Applications of EB methods