Measuring Discordancy between Prior and Data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Methodological

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 679-689

  Young, K D S ^a   Pettit, L I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fractional bayes factor; imaginary observation; intrinsic bayes factor; pseudo bayes factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646761888     PISSN: 00359246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1996.tb02107.x     Document Type: Article

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