Bayesian inference based on robust priors and MML estimators: Part II, skew location-scale distributions

Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-99

  Bian, Guorui ^a   Tiku, Moti L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Gamma distribution; Highest posterior density estimator; Mode of poly t density; Modified maximum likelihood estimators; Outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243109834     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331889708802575     Document Type: Article

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