Diagnostics of prior-data agreement in applied Bayesian analysis

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1011-1029

  Bousquet, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrete distributions; Expert opinion; Kullback Leibler diver gence; Lifetime distributions; Objective prior; Prior data conflict; Subjective prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749112151     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802192981     Document Type: Article

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