Expected-posterior prior distributions for model selection

Biometrika

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 491-511

  Pérez, José M ^a   Berger, James O ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Default Bayesian model selection; Intrinsic Bayes factor; Intrinsic prior; Mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23544470859     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/89.3.491     Document Type: Article

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