Statistical decision problems and bayesian nonparametric methods

International Statistical Review

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-330

  Gutiérrez Peña, Eduardo ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherence; Consistency; Decision theory; Divergence; Expected utility; Nonparametric prior; Parametric predictive density

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344439879     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2005.tb00151.x     Document Type: Article

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