The Effect of Improper Priors on Gibbs Sampling in Hierarchical Linear Mixed Models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 436, 1996, Pages 1461-1473

  Hobert, James P ^a   Casella, George ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal breeding; Compatibility; Functional compatibility; Improper posterior; Markov chain; Monte Carlo; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030327881     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476714     Document Type: Article

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