Conditionally reducible natural exponential families and enriched conjugate priors

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 377-406

  Consonni, Guido ^a   Veronese, Piero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conditional reducibility; Cut; Enriched prior; Exponential family; Simple quadratic variance function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035373889     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00243     Document Type: Article

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