Intrinsic Bayes factor approach to a test for the power law process

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-220

  Lingham, Rama T ^a   Sivaganesan, S ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

(Non homogeneous) Poisson process; Automatic Bayes factor; Intrinsic Bayes factors; Likelihood principle; Probability matching prior; Reference prior; Repairable systems; Weibull process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346873976     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00181-5     Document Type: Article

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