Bayesian robustness of the posterior predictive p-value

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1493-1503

  De la Horra, Julian ^a   Rodriguez Bernal, Maria Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

contamination class; Bayesian robustness; Linearization technique; Posterior odds; Posterior predictive p value

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

BAYESIAN ROBUSTNESS; POSTERIOR ODDS; POSTERIOR PREDICTIVE P-VALUE;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0042205057     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120022241     Document Type: Article

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