Suppose that the random variable X is distributed according to exponential families of distributions, conditional on the parameter 0. Assume that the parameter 0 has a (prior) distribution G. Because of the measurement error, we can only observe Y = X+e, where the measurement error e is independent
Influence functions and robust Bayes and empirical Bayes small area estimation
โ Scribed by Ghosh, M.; Maiti, T.; Roy, A.
- Book ID
- 118158097
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3444
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