On Stein's identity for posterior normality

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 495-506

  Weng, Ruby C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimator; Posterior distributions; Posterior normality; Stein's identity; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038720631     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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