Bayesian inference under partial prior information

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 565-580

  Moreno, Elias ^a   Bertolino, Francesco ^b   Racugno, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness; Generalized moments class; Intrinsic priors; Prior elicitation; Quantiles; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041360499     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00349     Document Type: Article

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