Selection of suitable prior for the Bayesian mixture of a class of lifetime distributions under type-I censored datasets

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1639-1658

  Kazmi, Syed Mohsin Ali ^a,b   Aslam, Muhammad ^b   Ali, Sajid ^b,c   Abbas, Nasir ^d  

^a Sustainable Development Policy Institute Islamabad   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d Government Post Graduate College Jhang   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

censored sampling; elicitation of hyperparameter; finite mixture of a class of lifetime distributions; fixed termination time; limiting expressions; precautionary loss function; squared error loss function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880265794     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.789831     Document Type: Article

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