Robust Bayesian displays for standard inferences concerning a normal mean

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 381-399

  Fan, Tsai Hung ^a   Berger, James O ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Credible sets; Mixture importance sampling; One sided testing; P value; Point null hypothesis; Posterior mean; Posterior variance; Robust Bayesian analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCES; CAUCHY PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 0033738302     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(99)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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