Reference Analysis

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2005, Pages 17-90

  Bernardo, José M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

amount of information; Bayesian asymptotics; consensus priors; Fisher information; hypothesis testing; intrinsic discrepancy; intrinsic statistic; Jeffreys priors; maximum entropy; noninformative priors; objective priors; point estimation; reference priors; region estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649373558     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(05)25002-2     Document Type: Review

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