A commonly used paradigm in modeling count data is to assume that individual counts are generated from a Binomial distribution, with probabilities varying between individuals according to a Beta distribution. The marginal distribution of the counts is then BetaBinomial. Bradlow, Hardie, and Fader (2002, p. 189) make use of polynomial expansions to simplify Bayesian computations with Negative-Binomial distributed data. This article exploits similar expansions to facilitate Bayesian inference with data from the Beta-Binomial model. This has great application and computational importance to many problems, as previous research has resorted to computationally intensive numerical integration or Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques.
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Everson, P. J., & Bradlow, E. T. (2002). Bayesian inference for the Beta-Binomial distribution via polynomial expansions. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 11(1), 202–207. https://doi.org/10.1198/106186002317375686
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