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Optimal selection from distributions with unknown parameters: Robustness of Bayesian models

✍ Scribed by Alfred Müller

Publisher
Springer
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
675 KB
Volume
44
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-9422

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