Counting degrees of freedom in hierarchical and other richly-parameterised models

Biometrika

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 367-379

  Hodges, James S ^a   Sargent, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Degrees of freedom; Hierarchical model; Prior distribution; Random effect model; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011691958     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/88.2.367     Document Type: Article

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