Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64782 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP16/11
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper develops inference and statistical decision for set-identified parameters from the robust Bayes perspective. When a model is set-identified, prior knowledge for model parameters is decomposed into two parts: the one that can be updated by data (revisable prior knowledge) and the one that never be updated (unrevisable prior knowledge.) We introduce a class of prior distributions that shares a single prior distribution for the revisable, but allows for arbitrary prior distributions for the unrevisable. A posterior inference procedure proposed in this paper operates on the resulting class of posteriors by focusing on the posterior lower and upper probabilities. We analyze point estimation of the set-identified parameters with applying the gamma-minimax criterion. We propose a robustified posterior credible region for the set-identified parameters by focusing on a contour set of the posterior lower probability. Our framework offers a procedure to eliminate set-identified nuisance parameters, and yields inference for the marginalized identified set. For an interval identified parameter case, we establish asymptotic equivalence of the lower probability inference to frequentist inference for the identified set.
Subjects: 
Partial Identification
Bayesian Robustness
Belief Function
Imprecise Probability
Gamma-minimax
Random Set
JEL: 
C12
C15
C21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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