Posterior mean identifies the prior distribution in NB and related models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-134

  Papageorgiou, H ^a   Wesołowski, Jacek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conditional specifications; Identifiability of mixtures; Negative binomial mixtures; Posterior mean; Power series mixtures; Regression function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031498199     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(97)00055-2     Document Type: Article

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