enfascination comments on The Joys of Conjugate Priors - Less Wrong

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Comment author: enfascination 19 November 2013 01:40:25PM 0 points [-]

This work articulates an attack on the use of conjugate priors in a Bayesian analysis: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ba/1340369826 In their words, "conjugate priors may lead to a dogmatic analysis."

Sorry for necro.