Box-cox transformations in Bayesian analysis of compositional data

Environmetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 657-671

  Iyengar, Malini ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional predictive ordinate; Markov chain Monte Carlo technique; Posterior distribution; Posterior predictive loss; Simplex

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0031672491     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199811/12)9:6<657::AID-ENV329>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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