Robust Bayesian analysis: sensitivity to the prior

DOI10.1016/0378-3758(90)90079-AzbMath0747.62029WikidataQ126645242 ScholiaQ126645242MaRDI QIDQ1813481

James O. Berger

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testingBayesian robustnessreviewprior distributionsblack box modellower bounds on Bayes factorsmodelling uncertainty in the prior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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