On finitely additive priors, coherence, and extended admissibility

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344128zbMath0385.62005OpenAlexW2029386554MaRDI QIDQ1249391

William D. Sudderth, David C. Heath

Publication date: 1978

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344128

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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