Is it possible to choose alpha such that the integrated likelihood of the combined prior is bigger than the maximum integrated likelihood of the original priors?

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Is it possible to choose alpha such that the integrated likelihood of the combined prior is bigger than the maximum integrated likelihood of the original priors? #10

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maxbiostat commented 9 years ago

Would be interesting to prove the result in general.

lsbastos commented 9 years ago

Opa,

Vou dar uma olhada nisso terça feira.

Abraço, Leo Em 13/06/2015 15:53, "Luiz Max F. Carvalho" notifications@github.com escreveu:

Would be interesting to prove the result in general.

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maxbiostat commented 7 years ago

Answer is yes. Maybe in the future someone could look into how to choose $\alpha$ in such a way as to maximise the marginal likelihood.