Invariant HPD credible sets and MAP estimators

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 681-692

  Druilhet, Pierre ^a   Marin, Jean Michel ^b  

^a ENSAI Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de lAnalyse de lInformation   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Hpd; Jeffreys measure; Map; Nuisance parameters; Reference prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952553765     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-BA227     Document Type: Article

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