Objective bayesian inference for the half-normal and half-t distributions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 3165-3185

  Wiper, M P ^a   Giron F J ^b   Pewsey, Arthur ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Gaussian modulated gamma distribution; Gibbs sampling; Likelihood based inference; Model selection; Right truncated normal gamma distribution

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIAS CORRECTION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GIBBS SAMPLING; LIKELIHOOD BASED INFERENCE; MODEL SELECTION;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 51149099999     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920802105184     Document Type: Article

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