On perturbations of strongly admissible prior distributions
Eaton, Morris L. ; Hobert, James P. ; Jones, Galin L.
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 43 (2007), p. 633-653 / Harvested from Numdam
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Eaton, Morris L.; Hobert, James P.; Jones, Galin L. On perturbations of strongly admissible prior distributions. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 43 (2007) pp. 633-653. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpb.2006.09.006. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPB_2007__43_5_633_0/

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