A prior for the variance in hierarchical models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 567-578

  Daniels, Michael J ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi level models; Noninformative prior; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033266211     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316112     Document Type: Article

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