Predictive specification of prior model probabilities in variable selection

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 267-274

  Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaginary experiment; Local Bayes factor; Prior for regression coefficients; Prior prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010705129     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.2.267     Document Type: Article

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