Predictive performance of power posteriors

Abstract

We analyse the impact of using tempered likelihoods in the production of posterior predictions. Our findings reveal that once the sample size is at least moderately large and the temperature is not too small, then likelihood tempering has virtually no impact on the resulting posterior predictions.

Yann McLatchie
Yann McLatchie
PhD Student
Jeremias Knoblauch
Jeremias Knoblauch
Assistant Professor
EPSRC Fellow