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On the limiting normality of posterior distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. P. Dawid
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London

Extract

1. Introduction. Suppose that we wish to make inferences about an unknown real parameter θ, and that we have a random sample of observations (Xl, X2, …, Xn) from a distribution which depends on θ.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1970

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