Estimating Bayes Factors via Posterior Simulation with the Laplace—Metropolis Estimator

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 438, 1997, Pages 648-655

  Lewis, Steven M ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound Laplace Metropolis estimator; Integrated likelihood; Marginal likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Random effects model; World Fertility Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031514994     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474016     Document Type: Article

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