Model choice: A minimum posterior predictive loss approach

Biometrika

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Ghosh, Sujit K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Deviance; Exponential family; Generalised linear model; Penalty function; Utility function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002799511     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/85.1.1     Document Type: Article

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