Research Article

Posterior Propriety of an Objective Prior in a 4-Level Normal Hierarchical Model

Table 1

The Bayes risk.

Prior for Prior for

Constant prior234.280301.450244.154312.565
219.234284.716253.791309.367
214.406267.673223.430275.486

Reference prior208.342280.193229.257286.841
201.971264.365243.239294.634
197.123255.153208.372265.474