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Original Articles

A Bayesian Analysis for the Homogeneity Testing Problem Using ϵ–Contaminated Priors

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Pages 1049-1062 | Received 08 Dec 2006, Accepted 01 Dec 2009, Published online: 13 Jan 2011

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