Objective priors for the bivariate normal model

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 963-982

  Berger, James O ^a   Sun, Dongchu ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructive posterior distributions; Fiducial inference; Frequentist coverage; Jeffreys priors; Marginalization paradox; Matching priors; Reference priors; Rejection sampling; Right Haar prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049096782     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS501     Document Type: Article

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