Elicitation of multivariate prior distributions: A nonparametric Bayesian approach

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1635-1655

  Moala, Fernando A ^a   O'Hagan, Anthony ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analyst; Elicitation; Expert; Gaussian process; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949263074     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.01.004     Document Type: Review

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