Natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions: Statistical theory

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176346158zbMath0521.62014OpenAlexW1990029739WikidataQ100320960 ScholiaQ100320960MaRDI QIDQ1055104

Carl N. Morris

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176346158

zbMATH Keywords

momentsgammacharacterizationsunbiased estimationnormal distributionposterior distributionsmarginal distributionsconditional distributionsnatural exponential familiesbinomialPoissonnegative binomialquadratic regressionconjugate prior distributionsBhattacharya lower boundsCramer-Rao lower boundsquadratic variance functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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