Gibbs sampling, adaptive rejection sampling and robustness to prior specification for a mixed linear model

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-72

  Theobald, C M ^a   Firat, M Z ^a,b   Thompson, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive rejection sampling; Bayesian inference; Gibbs sampling; mixed linear model; sire model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030893551     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:19970104     Document Type: Article

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