Reference priors for discrete graphical models

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-40

  Consonni, Guido ^a   Leucari, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decomposable model; Fisher information matrix; Mixed parameterisation; Natural exponential family

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644982876     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.1.23     Document Type: Article

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