Objective priors for hypothesis testing in one-way random effects models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 303-320

  García Donato, Gonzalo ^a   Sun, Dongchu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Consistency; Divergence based prior; Hypothesis testing; Intrinsic prior; Model selection; Objective bayes factor; Orthogonality; Predictive matching prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447629755     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550350207     Document Type: Article

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