Eaton's Markov chain, its conjugate partner and script P sign-admissibility

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 361-373

  Hobert, James P ^a   Robert, C P ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Bilinear model; Branching process with immigration; Exponential family; Improper prior; Null recurrence; Random walk; Stochastic difference equation; Transience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033074821     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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