Generalization of jeffreys divergence-based priors for bayesian hypothesis testing

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 981-1003

  Bayarri, M J ^b   Garcia Donato G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Information consistency; Intrinsic priors; Irregular models; Kullback; Leibler divergence; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849147869     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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