A limit result for the prior predictive applied to checking for prior-data conflict

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1034-1038

  Evans, Michael ^a   Jang, Gun Ho ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Minimal sufficiency; Prior predictive; Prior data conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956209495     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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