Conjugate analysis of multivariate normal data with incomplete observations

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 533-550

  Dominici, Francesca ^a   Parmigiani, Giovanni ^a   Clyde, Merlise ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate analysis; Data missing at random; Gibbs sampling; Importance sampling; Inverse Wishart distribution; Multivariate normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364421     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315963     Document Type: Review

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