Asymptotic posterior normality for multiparameter problems

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4068-4080

  Weng, Ruby C ^a   Tsai, Wen Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Maximum likelihood estimator; Multiparameter cases; Posterior normality; Stein's identity; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849102975     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.03.034     Document Type: Article

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