The posterior distribution of the fixed and random effects in a mixed-effects linear model

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 211-229

  Harville, David A ^a   Zimmermann, Alan G ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Hierarchical Bayes inference; Mixed effects linear models; Mode; Poly t distribution; Ridge analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030499611     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659608811729     Document Type: Article

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