Nonparametric elicitation for heavy-tailed prior distributions

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-718

  Gosling, John Paul ^a   Oakley, Jeremy E ^a   O'Hagan, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert elicitation; Gaussian process; Heavy tailed distribution; Non parametric density estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450076350     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-BA228     Document Type: Article

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