Bayesian robustness modelling of location and scale parameters

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 691-711

  Andrade, Jose Ailton Alencar ^a   O'Hagan, Anthony ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian robustness; Conflicting information; Regularly varying distributions; RV credence

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855185592     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00750.x     Document Type: Article

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