Overall objective priors

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 189-221

  Berger, James O ^a   Bernardo, Jose M ^b   Sun, Dongchu ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint reference prior; Logarithmic divergence; Multinomial model; Objective priors; Reference analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979950240     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-BA915     Document Type: Article

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