Invariance of posterior distributions under reparametrization

Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-118

  Eaton, Morris L ^a   Sudderth, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate system choices and prior distributions; Group invariant models and Jeffreys invariance; Invariance under reparametrization; Jeffreys priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953049718     PISSN: 09727671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13171-010-0001-x     Document Type: Article

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