Single observation unbiased priors

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1345-1375

  Meng, Xiao Li ^a,c   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissibility, affine duality; Amalgamation invariance; Bayes linear prediction; Beta; Binomial; Census undercount; Completeness; Conjugate priors; Duality; F; Gamma; Generalized Bayes estimators; Multiple imputation; Negative binomial; O completeness; Poisson

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036431227     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1035844979     Document Type: Article

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