Reference priors for a product of normal means when variances are unknown

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-103

  Sun, Dongchu ^b   Ye, Keying ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Frequentist coverage probability; Jeffreys prior; Reference priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040116655     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315493     Document Type: Article

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