A new statistical principle called the predictively oriented (PrO) posterior has been introduced, aiming to combine the strengths of parameter inference and density estimation. This approach expresses uncertainty based on predictive ability, theoretically converging to the predictively optimal model average and outperforming classical and generalized Bayes posterior predictive distributions. The PrO posterior adapts to model misspecification, stabilizing towards an irreducible uncertainty distribution rather than a single model when the data-generating distribution cannot be recovered. A sampling algorithm using mean field Langevin dynamics has been developed to implement PrO posteriors, with numerical examples validating its practical significance. AI
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