Estimation of quadratic functions: Noninformative priors for non-centrality parameters

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 359-375

  Berger, James O ^a   Philippe, Anne ^b   Robert, Christian P ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Chi squared distribution; Gibbs sampling; Importance sampling; Nuisance parameter; Orthogonalization; Quantile approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032364488     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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