Assessment of locally influential observations in Bayesian models

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 365-384

  Millar, Russell B ^a   Stewart, Wayne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Case sensitivity; Influence; Kullback Leibler divergence; Local sensitivity; Posterior density; Predictive density; Quasi posterior

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957829498     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-BA216     Document Type: Article

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