Assessing the order of dependence for partially exchangeable binary data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 441, 1998, Pages 194-202

  Quintana, Fernando A ^a   Newton, Michael A ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional simulation; Markov chains; Model selection; Multiple binary sequences; Nonparametric mixtures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032336876     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10474101     Document Type: Article

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