Bayesian analysis of agricultural field experiments

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

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 691-746

  Besag, Julian ^a   Higdon, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Box 354322 ^*

Author keywords

Agricultural field trials; Bayesian computation; Bayesian inference; Binary data; Combining information; Crop experiments; Intrinsic autoregressions; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Markov random fields; Prior distributions; Ranking and selection; Spatials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033482454     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00201     Document Type: Article

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