Reference priors with partial information

Biometrika

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-71

  Sun, D ^a   Berger, J O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Gamma distribution; Kullback Leibler divergence; Neyman Scott problem; Noninformative prior; Normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002902272     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/85.1.55     Document Type: Article

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