Local sensitivity of posterior expectations

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-195

  Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classes of probabilities; Fr chet derivative; Jeffreys' prior; Lp norm; Local sensitivity; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030538420     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066205     Document Type: Article

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