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Theory and Methods

An Objective Approach to Prior Mass Functions for Discrete Parameter Spaces

C. VillaView further author information
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S. G. WalkerView further author information
Pages 1072-1082 | Received 01 Mar 2013, Published online: 07 Nov 2015

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