[R] Empirical Bayes Estimator for Poisson-Gamma Parameters

[Nicole Ford]

also, kruschke at indiana has some info on this, both online and youtube.  (if homework.)  if not, more infor will be helpful.

~n


On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Homework? We don't do homework here.
> 
> If not, search (e.g. via google -- "R hierarchical Bayes" -- or some such).
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ali A. Bromideh <A.BROMIDEH at ikco.com> wrote:
>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I apologize for any cross-posting. I got a simple question, which I thought
>> the R list may help me to find an answer. Suppose we have Y_1, Y_2, ., Y_n ~
>> Poisson (Lambda_i) and Lambda_i ~Gamma(alpha_i, beta_i).  Empirical Bayes
>> Estimator for hyper-parameters of the gamma distr, i.e. (alpha_t, beta_t)
>> are needed.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> y=c(12,5,17,14)
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>> n=4
>> 
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>> 
>> What about a Hierarchal B ayes estimators?
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>> Any relevant work and codes in R (or S+) is highly appreciated.
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>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Ali
>> 
>> 
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