Investigation of bimodality in likelihoods and posterior densities

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 379-386

  Firat, Mehmet Z ^a   Thompson, R ^b  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Bimodality; Maximum likelihood; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030534265     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659608811741     Document Type: Article

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