Laplace Approximations for Posterior Expectations When the Mode Occurs at the Boundary of the Parameter Space

DOI10.2307/2291221MaRDI QIDQ4292153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alaattin Erkanli

Publication date 10 July 1994

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2291221

zbMATH Keywords

modedivergence theoremsaddle-point approximationsecond-order accuracysurface integralsTierney-Kadane approximationboundary of the parameter spaceasymptotic expansions for posterior expectationsinterior-mode Laplace methodrandom- effects modeltwo-sample binomial problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Integral formulas of real functions of several variables (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.) (26B20)

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