Fully exponential Laplace approximations using asymptotic modes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 468, 2004, Pages 1037-1049

  Miyata, Yoichi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansions; Bayesian inference; Computation of integrals; Laplace's method; Predictive distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844236318     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000001673     Document Type: Article

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