Predictive densities: General asymptotic results and admissibility

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1165-1178

  Wei, Gang ^a   Mukerjee, Ruhal ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

divergence; Bayes predictive density; Estimative density; Jeffreys' prior; Kullback Leibler divergence; Probability matching prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346338300     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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