An Objective Approach to Prior Mass Functions for Discrete Parameter Spaces

DOI10.1080/01621459.2014.946319zbMath1373.62108OpenAlexW2096293468MaRDI QIDQ5367421

Cristiano Villa, Stephen G. Walker

Publication date: 13 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/An_Objective_Approach_to_Prior_Mass_Functions_for_Discrete_Parameter_Spaces/1597475

zbMATH Keywords

loss functionKullback-Leibler divergencebinomialdiscrete parameter spaceobjective priorhypergeometricdesign prior distributionprior mass function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15)

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