Infinite hierarchies and prior distributions

Bernoulli

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 453-471

  Roberts, Gareth O ^a   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hierarchial priors; Non informative priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749868450     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318496     Document Type: Article

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