Approaches for bayesian variable selection

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 339-373

  George, Edward I ^a   McCulloch, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate prior; Gibbs sampling; Gray Code; Hierarchical models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithms; Normal mixtures; Normalization constant; Regression; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031526204     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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