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Nuisance Parameters and the Use of Exploratory Graphical Methods in a Bayesian Analysis

James H. Albert Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA
Pages 191-196 | Received 01 Mar 1988, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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