How regular are conjugate exponential families?

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(89)90117-XMaRDI QIDQ1121608zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ulrich Müller-Funk, Friedrich Pukelsheim

Publication date 1989

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

biasFisher information matrixlog-concavitymaximum likelihood estimatemoments of higher orderregular exponential familiesstrong unimodalityclosedness under samplingconjugate distributionconjugate parameterconjugate weightexponential family of sampling distributionsprior locationprior sample sizesampling mean-value parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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