Prior distributions on measure space

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 217-235

  Sibisi, Sibusiso ^a,b   Skilling, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Infinite divisibility; Infinitely divisible process; Kernel function; Levy measure; Spatial correlation; process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000676356     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00065     Document Type: Article

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