Bayesian analysis of the prototypal search model

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 178-186

  Kiefer, Nicholas M ^a   Steel, Mark F J ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Job search; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Natural conjugate prior; Prior elicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032342943     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1998.10524751     Document Type: Article

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