Bayesian estimation for the Pareto income distribution

Statistical Papers

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 247-262

  Bhattacharya, Samir K ^b   Chaturvedi, Anoop ^a   Singh, Nand Kishore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayes estimator; Bayesian posterior density (BPD); Doubly Truncated Gamma prior distribution; Gini Index (GI); Hyperparameter assessment; Likelihood function (LF); Pareto income distribution (PID); Poverty Line (PL); Squared error loss function (SELF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347811973     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02929874     Document Type: Review

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