The formal definition of reference priors

DOI10.1214/07-AOS587zbMath1162.62013arXiv0904.0156OpenAlexW2146336951WikidataQ55892979 ScholiaQ55892979MaRDI QIDQ1020984

James O. Berger, Dongchu Sun, José Miguel Bernardo

Publication date: 4 June 2009

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0156

zbMATH Keywords

Fisher information Jeffreys priors noninformative priors reference priors objective priors Bayesian asymptotics amount of information consensus priors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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