Estimating a product of means: Bayesian analysis with reference priors

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 84, Issue 405, 1989, Pages 200-207

  Berger, James O ^a   Bernardo, José M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Generalidad Valenciana ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Noninformative prior; Nuisance parameters; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000303854     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1989.10478756     Document Type: Article

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