Dettagli del libro
Formato
eBook
Pagine
411
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
May 31, 2009
Editore
Springer
ISBN-10
1280010622
ISBN-13
9781280010620
Descrizione
The concept of conditional specification of distributions is not new but, except in normal families, it has not been well developed in the literature. Computational difficulties undoubtedly hindered or discouraged developments in this direction. However, such roadblocks are of dimished importance today. Questions of compatibility of conditional and marginal specifications of distributions are of fundamental importance in modeling scenarios. Models with conditionals in exponential families are particularly tractable and provide useful models in a broad variety of settings.