The maximum likelihood prior

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2083-2103

  Hartigan, J A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic admissibility; Kullback Leibler distance; Maximum likelihood; The Jeffreys prior; Uninformative priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032235890     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1024691462     Document Type: Article

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