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empirical Bayes: a standalone construct

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Bayesian statistics

estimating a prior from the data themselves and then using it to shrink individual estimates toward the group.

In Bayesian statistics, empirical Bayes refers to estimating a prior from the data themselves and then using it to shrink individual estimates toward the group. This meaning comes from Efron (1973) in Journal of the American Statistical Association.[1]

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References

Efron, B., & Morris, C. (1973). Stein's Estimation Rule and its Competitors: An Empirical Bayes Approach. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 68(341), 117-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1973.10481350

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