Assessment of Prior Distributions based on Information Theory

DOI10.1080/02522667.1986.10698846MaRDI QIDQ3723484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Parthasarathy Bagchi

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/02522667.1986.10698846

zbMATH Keywords

momentsprior informationalgorithminformation theoryprior distributionprinciple of maximum entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12)

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