Second-order probability matching priors

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 970-975

  Mukerjee, Rahul ^a,b   Ghosh, Malay ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

^b 103 Griffin Floyd Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Frequentist validity; Invariance; Posterior distribution function; Posterior quantile

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001128325     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.4.970     Document Type: Article

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