Stability of the tail Markov chain and the evaluation of improper priors for an exponential rate parameter

Bernoulli

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 549-564

  Hobert, James P ^a   Marchev, Dobrin ^a   Schweinsberg, Jason ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Malott Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Coupling; Hazard rate; Null recurrence; Reversibility; Stochastic comparison; Stochastically monotone Markov chain; Transience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747336725     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1089206409     Document Type: Article

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