Objective priors for discrete parameter spaces

DOI10.1080/01621459.2012.682538MaRDI QIDQ4916501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jose M. 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

BinomialDiscrete parameter spaceHypergeometricJeffreys-rule priorsParameter-based asymptoticsPrior model probabilitiesReference priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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