Posterior Probabilities: Dominance and Optimism

09/23/2022
by   Sergiu Hart, et al.
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The Bayesian posterior probability of the true state is stochastically dominated by that same posterior under the probability law of the true state. This generalizes to notions of "optimism" about posterior probabilities.

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