Advanced search
Publication Cover
The American Statistician Volume 39, 1985 - Issue 2
Submit an article Journal homepage
526
Views
63
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

An Introduction to Empirical Bayes Data Analysis

George Casella Biometrics Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
Pages 83-87 | Received 01 Jun 1984, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

Citations (63)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (26)

Rida Benhaddou & Matthew A. Connell. (2023) Nonparametric empirical Bayes estimation based on generalized Laguerre series. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 52:19, pages 6896-6915.
Read now
Jingchao Sun, Maiying Kong & Subhadip Pal. (2023) The Modified-Half-Normal distribution: Properties and an efficient sampling scheme. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 52:5, pages 1591-1613.
Read now
Kevan Guilherme Nóbrega Barbosa, Blake Byron Walker, Alessandra Vieira da Silva, Gessyca Luyze Procópio Gonzaga, Evanisa Helena Maio de Brum & Mara Cristina Ribeiro. (2021) Spatial-temporal patterns of homicide in socioeconomically deprived settings: violence in Alagoas, Brazil, 2006‒2015. Global Health Action 14:1.
Read now
Chen-Mao Liao, Chih-Ming Lin, Chin-Chia Kuo, Ming-Shu Chen, Chun-Yang Huang & Ching-Yuan Lin. (2020) Adjusting Quality Control Chart Limits for WBC, RBC, Hb, and PLT Counts to Reduce Daily Control Risks in Hospital Laboratory. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 13, pages 3039-3049.
Read now
Mariola Moeyaert, Diana Akhmedjanova, John Ferron, S. Natasha Beretvas & Wim Van den Noortgate. (2020) Effect size estimation for combined single-case experimental designs. Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention 14:1-2, pages 28-51.
Read now
Sean Langcake & Tim Robinson. (2018) Forecasting the Australian economy with DSGE and BVAR models. Applied Economics 50:3, pages 251-267.
Read now
Abdul Suleman. (2017) A fuzzy clustering approach to evaluate individual competencies from REFLEX data. Journal of Applied Statistics 44:14, pages 2513-2533.
Read now
Nicholas Chamandy, Omkar Muralidharan & Stefan Wager. (2015) Teaching Statistics at Google-Scale. The American Statistician 69:4, pages 283-291.
Read now
Shi-Shun Zhao, Jian Tao, Ning-Zhong Shi & Nan Lin. (2015) A Note on the Comparison of the Stein Estimator and the James-Stein Estimator. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 44:16, pages 3363-3374.
Read now
Il Do Ha, Jianxin Pan, Seungyoung Oh & Youngjo Lee. (2014) Variable Selection in General Frailty Models Using Penalized H-Likelihood. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 23:4, pages 1044-1060.
Read now
A.K.M. Fazlur Rahman, James D. Lynch & Edsel A. Peña. (2014) Nonparametric Bayes estimation of gap-time distribution with recurrent event data. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics 26:3, pages 575-598.
Read now
Janet C Siebert, Brandie D Wagner & Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga. (2014) Integrating and Mining Diverse Data in Human Immunological Studies. Bioanalysis 6:2, pages 209-223.
Read now
Walter Orth. (2013) Default probability estimation in small samples—with an application to sovereign bonds. Quantitative Finance 13:12, pages 1891-1902.
Read now
Tsai-Hung Fan & Yi-Fu Wang. (2013) An empirical Bayesian forecast in the threshold stochastic volatility models. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 83:3, pages 486-500.
Read now
Christian Robert. (2012) Large-Scale Inference: Empirical Bayes Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Prediction. CHANCE 25:3, pages 59-61.
Read now
Cheng C. Chen & Sarjinder Singh. (2011) Pseudo-Bayes and pseudo-empirical Bayes estimators in randomized response sampling. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 81:6, pages 779-793.
Read now
A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh, K. M. Hassanein, R. S. Hassanein & H. M. Kim. (2006) Quasi-Empirical Bayes Methodology for Improving Meta-Analysis. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 16:1, pages 77-90.
Read now
KennethP. Burnham & GaryC. White. (2002) Evaluation of some random effects methodology applicable to bird ringing data. Journal of Applied Statistics 29:1-4, pages 245-264.
Read now
BradleyP. Carlin & ThomasA. Louis. (2000) Empirical Bayes: Past, Present and Future. Journal of the American Statistical Association 95:452, pages 1286-1289.
Read now
Ray Okafor. (1999) Using an empirical Bayes model to estimate currency exchange rate. Journal of Applied Statistics 26:8, pages 973-983.
Read now
HarryF. Martz, PaulH. Kvam & LeeR. Abramson. (1996) Empirical Bayes Estimation of the Reliability of Nuclear-Power-Plant Emergency Diesel Generators. Technometrics 38:1, pages 11-24.
Read now
N.S. Altman & G. Casella. (1995) Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Growth Curve Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association 90:430, pages 508-515.
Read now
Robert H. Crouse, Chun Jin & R. C. Hanumara. (1995) Unbiased ridge estimation with prior information and ridge trace. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods 24:9, pages 2341-2354.
Read now
WilliamB. Fairley, AlanJ. Izenman & Partha Bagchi. (1990) Inference for Welfare Quality Control Programs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 85:411, pages 874-890.
Read now
. (1986) Letters to the Editor. The American Statistician 40:3, pages 255-258.
Read now
. (1986) Letters to the Editor. The American Statistician 40:1, pages 77-79.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (37)

Benjamin Avanzi, Greg Taylor, Melantha Wang & Bernard Wong. (2024) Machine Learning with High-Cardinality Categorical Features in Actuarial Applications. ASTIN Bulletin 54:2, pages 213-238.
Crossref
Mahdi Teimouri, Seyed Mehdi Hoseini & Maria Sabrina Greco. (2024) Bayesian inference for amplitude distribution with application to radar clutter. Digital Signal Processing 148, pages 104443.
Crossref
Manuel Marschall, Gerd Wübbeler, Franko Schmähling & Clemens Elster. (2023) Generative models and Bayesian inversion using Laplace approximation. Computational Statistics 39:3, pages 1321-1349.
Crossref
Simon Hansul, Andreas Fettweis, Erik Smolders & Karel De Schamphelaere. (2023) Extrapolating Metal (Cu, Ni, Zn) Toxicity from Individuals to Populations Across Daphnia Species Using Mechanistic Models: The Roles of Uncertainty Propagation and Combined Physiological Modes of Action . Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 43:2, pages 338-358.
Crossref
Mario V. Wuthrich. (2024) Experience Rating in Insurance Pricing. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref
Andreas S. Stordal, Rolf J. Lorentzen & Kristian Fossum. (2023) Marginalized iterative ensemble smoothers for data assimilation. Computational Geosciences 27:6, pages 975-986.
Crossref
Shin'ya Nakano, Ryuho Kataoka, Masahito Nosé & Jesper W. Gjerloev. (2023) Probabilistic modelling of substorm occurrences with an echo state network. Annales Geophysicae 41:2, pages 529-539.
Crossref
Luciana Medeiros, Milani Chaloupka, Alan B. Bolten, Eduardo M. von Muhlen, Alexsandro Santos, Ana C. J. Marcondes, João C. A. Thomé, Maria Ângela Marcovaldi & Karen A. Bjorndal. (2022) Tracking green turtle nesting trends at a remote oceanic rookery. Marine Biology 169:5.
Crossref
Erin M. Gandelman, Steven A. Miller & Sudie E. Back. (2022) Imaginal exposure processing during Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders using Prolonged Exposure (COPE) therapy: Examination of linguistic markers of cohesiveness. Journal of Traumatic Stress 35:2, pages 682-693.
Crossref
Jürgen Claesen, Srinath Krishnamurthy, Andy M. LauAnastassios Economou. (2021) Moderated Test Statistics to Detect Differential Deuteration in Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Experiments. Analytical Chemistry 93:49, pages 16341-16349.
Crossref
Christopher J. Moore & Davide Gerosa. (2021) Population-informed priors in gravitational-wave astronomy. Physical Review D 104:8.
Crossref
A. D. Vira, B. A. Larsen, R. M. Skoug & P. A. Fernandes. (2021) Bayesian Model for HOPE Mass Spectrometers on Van Allen Probes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126:3.
Crossref
Raoul Wolf & Knut Erik Tollefsen. (2021) A Bayesian Approach to Incorporating Spatiotemporal Variation and Uncertainty Limits into Modeling of Predicted Environmental Concentrations from Chemical Monitoring Campaigns. Environmental Science & Technology 55:3, pages 1699-1709.
Crossref
Richard D Brown, Johnathan M Bardsley & Tiangang Cui. (2020) Semivariogram methods for modeling Whittle–Matérn priors in Bayesian inverse problems. Inverse Problems 36:5, pages 055006.
Crossref
Georgios Stavropoulos, Daisy M A E Jonkers, Zlatan Mujagic, Ger H Koek, Ad A M Masclee, Marieke J Pierik, Jan W Dallinga, Frederik-Jan Van Schooten & Agnieszka Smolinska. (2020) Implementation of quality controls is essential to prevent batch effects in breathomics data and allow for cross-study comparisons. Journal of Breath Research 14:2, pages 026012.
Crossref
Daniel Daly-Grafstein & Luke Bornn. (2019) Rao-Blackwellizing field goal percentage. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 15:2, pages 85-95.
Crossref
Serafín Moral. (2019) Learning with imprecise probabilities as model selection and averaging. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 109, pages 111-124.
Crossref
Shin-ichi Ito, Hiromichi Nagao, Takashi Kurokawa, Tadashi Kasuya & Junya Inoue. (2019) Bayesian inference of grain growth prediction via multi-phase-field models. Physical Review Materials 3:5.
Crossref
James R. JasperMargaret ShortChris SheldenW. Stewart Grant. (2018) Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of unobserved salmon passage through weirs. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75:7, pages 1151-1159.
Crossref
Oyebayo Ridwan Olaniran & Waheed Babatunde Yahya. (2017) Bayesian Hypothesis Testing of Two Normal Samples using Bootstrap Prior Technique. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods 16:2, pages 618-638.
Crossref
Steve Pressé. (2014) Nonadditive entropy maximization is inconsistent with Bayesian updating. Physical Review E 90:5.
Crossref
Paolo Belardinelli, Erick Ortiz, Gareth Barnes, Uta Noppeney & Hubert Preissl. (2012) Source Reconstruction Accuracy of MEG and EEG Bayesian Inversion Approaches. PLoS ONE 7:12, pages e51985.
Crossref
Mijung Park & Jonathan W. Pillow. (2011) Receptive Field Inference with Localized Priors. PLoS Computational Biology 7:10, pages e1002219.
Crossref
Barbara WilhelmAndrijana RajićJudy D. GreigLisa WaddellJanet Harris. (2011) The Effect of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Programs on Microbial Contamination of Carcasses in Abattoirs: A Systematic Review of Published Data. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 8:9, pages 949-960.
Crossref
Martin RaphanEero P. Simoncelli. (2011) Least Squares Estimation Without Priors or Supervision. Neural Computation 23:2, pages 374-420.
Crossref
Ahrim Youn & Richard Simon. (2011) Identifying cancer driver genes in tumor genome sequencing studies. Bioinformatics 27:2, pages 175-181.
Crossref
SHIZHONG XU & ZHIQIU HU. (2011) Methods of plant breeding in the genome era. Genetics Research 92:5-6, pages 423-441.
Crossref
EDSON SANDOVAL-CASTELLANOS. (2010) Testing temporal changes in allele frequencies: a simulation approach. Genetics Research 92:4, pages 309-320.
Crossref
Edward J. StanekIIIIII & Edward J. Calabrese. (2010) Predicting Low Dose Effects for Chemicals in High Through-Put Studies. Dose-Response 8:3, pages dose-response.0.
Crossref
Tammy L. Wilson, James B. Odei, Mevin B. Hooten & Thomas C. Edwards Jr. (2010) Hierarchical spatial models for predicting pygmy rabbit distribution and relative abundance. Journal of Applied Ecology 47:2, pages 401-409.
Crossref
E. Ip & G. Molenberghs. 2010. International Encyclopedia of Education. International Encyclopedia of Education 142 149 .
Allan Lo, Yi-Yuan Chiu, Einar Andreas Rødland, Ping-Chiang Lyu, Ting-Yi Sung & Wen-Lian Hsu. (2009) Predicting helix–helix interactions from residue contacts in membrane proteins. Bioinformatics 25:8, pages 996-1003.
Crossref
Sander Greenland. (2000) Principles of multilevel modelling. International Journal of Epidemiology 29:1, pages 158-167.
Crossref
D. Gianola, J.L. Foulley, R.L. Fernando, C.R. Henderson & K.A. Weigel. (1992) Estimation of Heterogeneous Variances Using Empirical Bayes Methods: Theoretical Considerations. Journal of Dairy Science 75:10, pages 2805-2823.
Crossref
K.A. Weigel, D. Gianola, R.J. Tempelman, C.A. Matos, I.H.C. Chen, T. Wang, R. Bunge & L.L. Lo. (1991) Improving Estimates of Fixed Effects in a Mixed Linear Model. Journal of Dairy Science 74:9, pages 3174-3182.
Crossref
Alexander Chinco, Andreas Neuhierl & Michael Weber. (2019) Estimating the Anomaly Baserate. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref
Dawn Iacobucci, Steven S. Posavac, Frank R. Kardes, Matthew Schneider & Deidre L. Popovich. (2015) The Median Split: Robust, Refined, and Revived. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.