Laplace expansion for posterior densities of nonlinear functions of parameters

DOI10.1093/biomet/79.2.393zbMath0751.62006OpenAlexW2075892550MaRDI QIDQ4015846

Wing-Hung Wong, Bing Li

Publication date: 29 November 1992

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/79.2.393

zbMATH Keywords

manifoldasymptotic expansionLaplace expansionparameterizationmarginal posterior densitiestensor notationsnonlinear functions of parametersposterior densitieschange-in-volume term

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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