Posterior distribution of hierarchical models using CAR(1) distributions

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 341-350

  Sun, Dongchu ^a   Tsutakawa, Robert K ^a   Speckman, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Linear mixed model; Multivariate normal; Partially informative normal distribution; Poisson distribution; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009056189     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.341     Document Type: Article

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