It is well known that standard frequentist inference breaks down in IV regressions with weak instruments. Bayesian inference with diffuse priors suffers from the same problem. We show that the issue ...

We modified the phylogenetic program MrBayes 3.1.2 to incorporate the compound Dirichlet priors for branch lengths proposed recently by Rannala, Zhu, and Yang (2012. Tail paradox, partial ...

Uncertainty in specification of the prior distribution is a common concern with Bayesian analysis. The robust Bayesian approach is to work with a class of prior distributions, which model uncertainty ...