What are the limits of posterior distributions arising from nonidentified models, and why should we care?

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 488, 2009, Pages 1682-1695

  Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Bayesian inference; Nonidentified model

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049133642     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08603     Document Type: Article

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