Bayesian Inference For The Beta-Binomial Distribution Via Polynomial Expansions

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2002

Published In

Journal Of Computational And Graphical Statistics

Abstract

A commonly used paradigm in modeling count data is to assume that individual counts are generated from a Binomial distribution, with probabilities varying between individuals according to a Beta distribution. The marginal distribution of the counts is then Beta-Binomial. Bradlow, Hardie, and Fader (2002, p. 189) make use of polynomial expansions to simplify Bayesian computations with Negative-Binomial distributed data. This article exploits similar expansions to facilitate Bayesian inference with data from the Beta-Binomial model. This has great application and computational importance to many problems, as previous research has resorted to computationally intensive numerical integration or Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques.

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