Conjugate priors for exponential families

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344611zbMath0405.62011OpenAlexW2143143555WikidataQ100320961 ScholiaQ100320961MaRDI QIDQ1257301

Donald Ylvisaker, Persi Diaconis

Publication date: 1979

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344611

zbMATH Keywords

CharacterizationExponential FamiliesBayesian StatisticsConjugate PriorsCredibility TheoryPosterior Linearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10)

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