Compatible priors for Bayesian model comparison with an application to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium model

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Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 585-605

  Consonni, Guido ^a   Gutiérrez Peña, Eduardo ^b   Veronese, Piero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Conjugate prior; Dirichlet distribution; Jeffreys conditioning; Kullback Leibler projection; Nested model; Predictive distribution; Trinomial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649230822     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-007-0057-7     Document Type: Article

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