Posterior Precision for Non-Normal Distributions
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Methodological)
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0035-9246
DOI: 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1971.tb01526.x