Bayesian testing and estimation of association in a two-way contingency table

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 438, 1997, Pages 685-693

  Albert, James H ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Gibbs sampling; Laplace method; Model selection; Odds ratios

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031511721     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474020     Document Type: Article

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