The rule of three, its variants and extensions

International Statistical Review

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 266-275

  Tuyl, Frank ^a   Gerlach, Richard ^b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Binomial; Non informative priors; Poisson; Predictive inference; Zero events

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349120291     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: 17515823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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