ε -contaminated priors in testing point null hypothesis: A procedure to determine the prior probability

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-60

  Gómez Villegas, Miguel A ^a   Sanz, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

62A15* contaminated class; 62F15; Point null hypothesis; Posterior probability* p values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042779856     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(99)00137-6     Document Type: Article

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