Coverage Inducing Priors in Nonstandard Inference Problems
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We consider the construction of set estimators that possess both Bayesian credibility and frequentist coverage properties. We show that under mild regularity conditions there exists a prior distribution that induces (1 − α) frequentist coverage of a (1 − α) credible set. In contrast to the previous literature, this result does not rely on asymptotic normality or invariance, so it can be applied in nonstandard inference problems.
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