Weak informativity and the information in one prior relative to another

DOI10.1214/11-STS357zbMath1246.62007arXiv1201.1766OpenAlexW3097978729MaRDI QIDQ449852

Gun Ho Jang, Michael Evans

Publication date: 1 September 2012

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1766

zbMATH Keywords

prior-data conflictnoninformativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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