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Theory and Method

Noninformative Priors and Nuisance Parameters

Bertrand Clarke Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907
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Larry Wasserman Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Pages 1427-1432 | Received 01 Oct 1991, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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