A note concerning a selection "paradox" of Dawid's

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 206-210

  Senn, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Hierarchical models; Prior distributions; Selection paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649090901     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X331530     Document Type: Review

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