On Bayesian learning from Bernoulli observations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3520-3530

  Bissiri, Pier Giovanni ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotics; Kullback Leibler divergence; Loss function

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954036139     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.05.023     Document Type: Article

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