On perturbations of strongly admissible prior distributions
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Volume 43 (2007) no. 5, p. 633-653
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Eaton, Morris L.; Hobert, James P.; Jones, Galin L. On perturbations of strongly admissible prior distributions. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Volume 43 (2007) no. 5, pp. 633-653. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpb.2006.09.006. http://www.numdam.org/item/AIHPB_2007__43_5_633_0/

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