Approximating the marginal likelihood estimate for models with random parameters

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-75

  Bell, Bradley M ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES; NUISANCE PARAMETERS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 0034817619     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00230-1     Document Type: Article

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