Timeline for Haldane's prior Beta(0,0) - Part 1
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| Mar 2, 2018 at 18:48 | comment | added | Xi'an | Imho, it is a measure (or the density of a measure against the Lebesgue measure onm $(0,1)$) rather than a distribution. As the notion of distribution is not set outside "probability distributions". | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 18:41 | comment | added | Tim | @Xi'an as a distribution it lacks the constant. | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 18:35 | comment | added | Xi'an | @Tim: in which sense $f(p) \propto p^{-1}(1-p)^{-1}$ is approximate? There is no imprecision in defining the prior without a constant since all choices of a constant lead to the same posterior (if defined) or none( if undefined). | |
| Feb 1, 2018 at 10:07 | vote | accept | AlexMe | ||
| Jan 31, 2018 at 22:30 | comment | added | Tim | @AlexStat it follows from $\Gamma(0) = \infty$ | |
| Jan 31, 2018 at 22:01 | comment | added | AlexMe | Thanks @Tim; can it be shown how the Beta function approaches $\infty$ as $\alpha, \beta→0$. | |
| Jan 31, 2018 at 21:12 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |