Order-Restricted Bayesian Estimation of the Age Composition of a Population of Atlantic Cod

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 437, 1997, Pages 33-40

  Nandram, Balgobin ^a   Sedransk, J ^b   Smith, Stephen J ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Gibbs sampler; Multinomial; Prior specification; Structural zeros; Unimodal order restrictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031532776     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473600     Document Type: Article

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