Bayesian multiple comparisons using dirichlet process priors

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 443, 1998, Pages 1130-1139

  Gopalan, Ramanan ^a   Berry, Donald A ^b  

^a Data Infoworks   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta binomial prior; Concentration parameter; Gibbs sampling; Normal inverted gamma prior; Posterior probabilities of hypotheses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032354013     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473774     Document Type: Article

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