An information-theoretic approach to incorporating prior information in binomial sampling

DOI10.1080/03610928408828813zbMath0568.62031OpenAlexW1963842340MaRDI QIDQ3684996

Danny Dyer, Paul Chiou

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/2270

zbMATH Keywords

beta distributionposterior robustnessbinomial sampling modelconservative prior distributionsKullback distance measurelikelihood dominated prior distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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