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Aug 11, 2019 at 17:49 history made wiki Post Made Community Wiki by whuber
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Jul 7, 2019 at 13:25 comment added whuber See stats.stackexchange.com/a/36037/919 for an illuminating description of the Cauchy distribution.
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:59 comment added Glen_b Its use as a prior is because of the distribution's properties (in general, the aim is to give some kind of weakly informative prior); from the wording of the question I wouldn't have thought you meant to include priors. There's a somewhat related question here: What are the properties of a half Cauchy distribution?
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:40 comment added Daria For computing hierarchical prior and reference prior.
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:34 comment added Glen_b When you say "for MCMC algorithm" do you mean instead "as a Bayesian prior" or do you mean "as a model for data in a Bayesian framework" or something else?
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:32 comment added Daria I've seen some practical examples out of my field of studies, specifically for MCMC algorithm. Therefore I've been curious if it can be applied for finance or ML
Jul 7, 2019 at 9:30 comment added Glen_b I challenge the premise -- is it actually popular as a practical model*? (If it is, how do you know, outside of seeing practical examples already?) ... $\:$ *[It's widely used in textbook examples because of its simplicity and as a counterexample to various things, but I doubt those count as practical. It's sometimes used as a prior, but that's not as a data model.]
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