Uniformly most powerful Bayesian tests

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1716-1741

  Johnson, Valen E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Higgs boson; Jeffreys Lindley paradox; Neyman Pearson lemma; Nonlocal prior density; Objective Bayes; One parameter exponential family model; Uniformly most powerful test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885037441     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOS1123     Document Type: Article

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