Some aspects of the history of Bayesian information processing

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 388-404

  Zellner, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes's theorem; Information theory; Learning from data; Optimal information processing rules; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

BAYES'S THEOREM; OPTIMAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 34247354229     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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