Bayesian approach to change point problems

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2035-2047

  Dey, Dipak K ^a   Purkayastha, Sumitra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Conditional predictive ordinate; Exponential families; Imaginary observations; Improper prior; Informative prior; Problem of Nile; Pseudo Bayes factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYES FACTOR; CHANGE POINT PROBLEMS; CONDITIONAL PREDICTIVE ORDINATE; EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0347076256     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708832030     Document Type: Article

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