Conditionally specified distributions: An introduction

Statistical Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-265

  Arnold, Barry C ^a   Castillo, Enrique ^b   María Sarabia, José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compatibility; Conjugate priors; Exponential families; Functional equations; Near compatibility; Normal conditionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986604770     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009213728     Document Type: Article

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