Bayesian analysis of the multivariate poisson distribution

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 431-451

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a  

^a Ministry of Economy and Finance Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Gibbs sampling; Multivariate probability mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000380298     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929908832305     Document Type: Article

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