Local Sensitivity of Inferences to Prior Marginals

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 774-781

  Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness; Fr chet derivative; Hierarchical model; Local sensitivity; Multidimensional prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030540780     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476945     Document Type: Article

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