Reference priors for prediction

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 295-317

  Kuboki, Hisataka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian prediction; Bernardo reference prior; Cumulative Bayes risk; Density estimation; Fisher information; Information gain; Invariance; Jeffreys prior; Noninformative prior; Relative entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032525502     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(97)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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