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$\alpha$-posteriors and their variational approximations distort standard posterior inference by downweighting the likelihood and introducing variational approximation errors. We show that such distortions, if tuned appropriately, reduce…
Another new family of continuous probability distribution is proposed by using Generalized Marshal-Olkin distribution as the base line distribution in the Kumaraswamy-G distribution. This family includes (Cordeiro and de Castro, 2011) and…
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