The likelihood of various stock market return distributions, Part 1: Principles of inference

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-219

  Markowitz, Harry M ^a   Usmen, Nilufer ^b  

^a Daiwa Securities Trust Company   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Lindley's paradox; Remote clients

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444454951     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00056153     Document Type: Article

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