Probability matching priors for non-regular cases

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 956-964

  Ghosal, Subhashis ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Credible interval; Multi parameter case; Non informative prior; Non regular case; Posterior distribution; Probability matching; Reference prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444233672     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.4.956     Document Type: Article

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