Locally uniform prior distributions

DOI10.1214/AOS/1033066204MaRDI QIDQ1922401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. A. Hartigan

Publication date 9 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1033066204

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalitybinary fraction priorsdiscrete prior distributionslocally uniform priorsminimum description length approachesmodel selectionnecessary and sufficient conditions for convergencepenalized likelihoodtail-bounded prior distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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