A characterization of a neutral to the right prior via an extension of Johnson's sufficientness postulate

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 589-599

  Walker, Stephen ^a   Muliere, Pietro ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exchangeability; Neutral to the right process; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033419966     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1018031208     Document Type: Article

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