Bayesian Analysis of Stochastically Ordered Distributions of Categorical Variables

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 437, 1997, Pages 208-214

  Evans, Michael ^a   Gilula, Zvi ^b   Guttman, Irwin ^c   Swartz, Tim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Gibbs sampling; Measures of concentration for posterior distributions; Posterior probability; Quadratic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031507511     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473618     Document Type: Article

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