A Bayesian Approach To Loss Robustness

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-88

  Dey, Dipak K ^a   Lou, Kuo ren ^a   Bose, Sudip ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness; continuous exponential family; discrete power series distributions; influence approach; LINEX loss function; minimax regret action; posterior expected loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342565513     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1998.16.1.65     Document Type: Article

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