Minimally informative prior distributions for non-parametric Bayesian analysis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-268

  Bush, Christopher A ^a   Lee, Juhee ^b   MacEachern, Steven N ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Dirichlet process; Improper prior; Local mass; Mixed modes analysis; Reference prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949493052     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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