Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
1873-1171
abstract
This paper deals with the problem of robustness of Bayesian regression with respect to the data. We first give a formal definition of Bayesian robustness to data contamination, prove that robustness according to the definition cannot be obtained by using heavy-tailed error distributions in linear regression models and propose a heteroscedastic approach to achieve the desired Bayesian robustness.