Conjugate Likelihood Distributions

Ehud Makov; E.I.   George; A.F.M.      Smith

Conjugate Likelihood Distributions

Ehud Makov, E.I. George, A.F.M. Smith

Department of Statistics

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Abstract

Families of probability distributions which arise naturally as parameter likelihoods in conjugate prior distributions for exponential families are identified, described and their relevance to computational issues in Bayes hierarchical models noted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	147-56
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
Volume	20
Issue number	2
State	Published - 1994

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