Objective Priors for Discrete Parameter Spaces

DOI10.1080/01621459.2012.682538zbMath1261.62023OpenAlexW1986480666MaRDI QIDQ4916501

José Miguel Bernardo, Dongchu Sun, James O. Berger

Publication date: 22 April 2013

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2012.682538

zbMATH Keywords

BinomialReference priorsHypergeometricDiscrete parameter spaceJeffreys-rule priorsParameter-based asymptoticsPrior model probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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