Abstract #300136

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300136
Activity Number: 163
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Bayesian Stat. Sciences
Abstract - #300136
Title: The Bayesian Contributions of E. Lhoste
Author(s): Lyle D. Broemeling*+
Companies: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Address: 3231 Forrester Dr., Pearland, TX, 77584-6685,
Keywords: Bayesian ; normal ; vague ; prior ; binomial ; information
Abstract:

The contributions of E. Lhoste (1923) are largely unknown outside of France, and even within that country are not well-known. His important contributions were in two areas: (1) the development of prior distributions that represent little or no information, and (2) a sophisticated posterior analysis for normal and binomial populations. His results are similar to those of Haldane (1948) and Jeffreys (1939, 1948, 1961), but they appeared much earlier in 1923. He gave a great deal of thought of how to represent vague prior knowledge and his results represent a significant and unique contribution to Bayesian ideas in the early part of the 20th century.

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