On the property of posteriors for dispersion models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 229-241

  Garvan, Cynthia Wilson ^a   Ghosh, Malay ^a  

^a 103 Griffin Floyd Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion models; Exponential; First order; Fisher von Mises; Jeffreys' priors; Noninformative priors; Power; Probability matching; Propriety; Reference priors; Second order; Simulations; Student's t

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130525     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00216-x     Document Type: Article

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