The formal definition of reference priors

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Publication:1020984


DOI10.1214/07-AOS587zbMath1162.62013arXiv0904.0156WikidataQ55892979 ScholiaQ55892979MaRDI QIDQ1020984

James O. Berger, Dongchu Sun, José Miguel Bernardo

Publication date: 4 June 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0156

zbMATH Keywords

Fisher information; Jeffreys priors; noninformative priors; reference priors; objective priors; Bayesian asymptotics; amount of information; consensus priors


Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F15: Bayesian inference

62A01: Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics

62B10: Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics


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