The conflict between improper priors and robustness

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Wasserman, Larry ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data dependent priors; Finitely additive probabilities; Improper priors; Robust Bayesian inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030167648     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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