An introduction to the imprecise Dirichlet model for multinomial data

DOI10.1016/J.IJAR.2004.10.002MaRDI QIDQ2386113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J.-M. Bernard

Publication date 22 August 2005

Published in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2004.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian inferencecontingency tablesDirichlet distributionFrequentist inferenceIDMLower and upper probabilitiesPredictive inferencePrior ignorance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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