Conditions for the insensitivity of the Bayesian posterior distribution to the choice of prior distribution

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(87)90090-3MaRDI QIDQ1124235zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John L. Maryak, James C. Spall

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(87)90090-3

zbMATH Keywords

choice of prior distributionposterior robustnessstable estimationweak consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Point estimation (62F10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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