Case influence analysis in bayesian inference

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 314-331

  Bradlow, Eric T ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Case deletion diagnostics; Hierarchical models; Importance weighting; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031327537     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1997.10474745     Document Type: Article

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