Neutral noninformative and informative conjugate beta and gamma prior distributions

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 1450-1470

  Kerman, Jouni ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Beta distribution; Conjugate analysis; Gamma distribution; Noninformative distributions; Prior distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859866455     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-EJS648     Document Type: Article

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