Two modeling strategies for empirical bayes estimation

Statistical Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 285-301

  Efron, Bradley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes rule in terms of f; f modeling; g modeling; Prior exponential families

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907193685     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-STS455     Document Type: Article

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