A modification for bayesian credible intervals

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1703-1711

  Zhang, Tonglin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian credible intervals; Frequentist coverage probability; Location parameters; Posterior coverage probability; Prior and posterior distributions; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

BAYESIAN CREDIBLE INTERVALS; FREQUENTIST COVERAGE PROBABILITY; LOCATION PARAMETERS; POSTERIOR COVERAGE PROBABILITY; PRIOR AND POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIMODALITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 33749011699     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600683838     Document Type: Article

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