Simultaneous prediction of independent poisson observables

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1744-1769

  Komaki, Fumiyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Jeffreys prior; Kullback Leibler divergence; Predictive distribution; Shrinkage prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344467068     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000445     Document Type: Article

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