Diagnostic checks for discrete data regression models using posterior predictive simulations

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-268

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Goegebeur, Yuri ^b   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^b   Van Mechelen, Iven ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Binary regression; Generalized linear models; Quantile quantile plots; Realized discrepancies; Residual plots; Sequential design; Stochastic learning models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034359277     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00190     Document Type: Article

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