25–26 Jun 2026
''Vasil Levski'' National Military University
Europe/Sofia timezone

On Some Properties of Posterior Predictive Distributions

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''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

''Vasil Levski'' National Military University

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Paper – Oral Presentation Information Technology

Speaker

Prof. Dimiter Tsvetkov (''Vasil Levski'' National Military University)

Description

This article considers the method of posterior predictive distributions as an effective tool for checking the correspondence between data and the
statistical model. The examples considered show that in the role of posterior predictive testing statistics, dispersion measures should be taken, because the central tendency measures do not give the natural expected results.

Authors

Prof. Ralitsa Angelova-Slavova (''Vasil Levski'' National Military University) Prof. Dimiter Tsvetkov (''Vasil Levski'' National Military University)

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