Frequentist accuracy of Bayesian estimates

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 617-646

  Efron, Bradley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate bootstrap confidence intervals; General accuracy formula; Hierarchical and empirical Bayes; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Parametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929224364     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssb.12080     Document Type: Article

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