Reference priors for exponential families with increasing dimension

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 737-780

  Clarke, Bertrand ^a   Ghosal, Subhashis ^b  

^a Center for Computational Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential family; Increasing dimension; Mutual information; Objective prior; Posterior normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978678945     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-EJS569     Document Type: Article

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