“…Although the use of a pseudo-likelihood function, in the Bayesian inference cannot be considered as orthodox, it is actually widely shared. Papers which discuss the use of pseudo-likelihoods in the Bayesian perspective are Efron (1993), Racugno (1992, 1994), Raftery et al (1996), Fraser et al (2003), Cabras et al (2006), Lin (2006), Chang and Mukerjee (2006), Greco et al (2008) and Pauli et al (2008). Papers which are more specifically related to the validation of a posterior distribution based on an alternative likelihood are Monahan and Boos (1992), Severini (1999), Lazar (2003), Schennach (2005), Racugno et al (2008) and .…”