An introduction to Bayesian reference analysis: Inference on the ratio of multinomial parameters

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-135

  Bernardo, José M ^a   Ramón, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amount of information; Bayesian asymptotics; Bayesian inference; Default priors; Fisher matrix; Non informative priors; Reference priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001683783     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00118     Document Type: Article

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