A new approach to default priors and robust Bayes methodology

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 437-450

  Delampady, Mohan ^a   DasGupta, Anirban ^b   Casella, George ^c   Rubin, Herman ^b   Strawderman, William E ^d  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimator; Correlation; Fisher information; Gaussian tilting; Maximum likelihood estimator; Robust estimation; Squared error loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035733189     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316039     Document Type: Article

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