Calculation of Posterior Bounds Given Convex Sets of Prior Probability Measures and Likelihood Functions

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 824-838

  Zman, Fabio Gagliardcoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness analysis; Fractional programming; Lavine s algorithm; Lower and upper envelopes; White Snow algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033273449     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474851     Document Type: Article

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