Local sensitivity, functional derivatives and nonlinear posterior quantities

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 405-418

  Basu, Sanjib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness; Fr chet derivative; Gateaux derivative; infinitesimal sensitivity; posterior median; posterior mode; posterior variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040971203     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1996.14.4.405     Document Type: Article

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