Prior elicitation, variable selection and Bayesian computation for logistic regression models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 223-242

  Chen, Ming Hui ^b   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Yiannoutsos, Constantin ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Logistic regression; Normal prior; Posterior distribution; Prior distribution; Selection of variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474268     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00173     Document Type: Article

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