Locally uniform prior distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1033066204zbMath0853.62008OpenAlexW2065118217MaRDI QIDQ1922401

J. A. Hartigan

Publication date: 9 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1033066204

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalitymodel selectionpenalized likelihoodnecessary and sufficient conditions for convergencebinary fraction priorsdiscrete prior distributionslocally uniform priorsminimum description length approachestail-bounded prior distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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