Maximum likelihood estimation under order restrictions by the prior feedback method

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 167-172

  Robert, Christian P ^a   Gene Hwang, J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimator; Conjugate prior; Gibbs sampling; Isotonic regression; M estimator; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010595064     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476673     Document Type: Article

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