A New Perspective on Priors for Generalized Linear Models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 436, 1996, Pages 1450-1460

  Bedrick, Edward J ^a   Christensen, Ronald ^a   Johnson, Wesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional means priors; Data augmentation priors; Exponential regression; Gamma regression; Linear models; Log linear models; Logistic regression; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030327054     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476713     Document Type: Article

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