Revisiting prior distributions, part I: Priors based on a physical invariance principle

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-434

  Baker, Rafi ^a   Christakos, George ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Invariance requirements; Knowledge integration; Prior probability; Random variables

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PROBABILITY;

EID: 33947419332     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-006-0075-0     Document Type: Article

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