Gibbs sampling with diffuse proper priors: A valid approach to data-driven inference?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-277

  Natarajan, Ranjini ^a   Mc culloch, Charles E ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse priors; Impropriety; Maximum likelihood estimation; Noninformative priors; Probit normal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032392354     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1998.10474776     Document Type: Article

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