Propriety of posteriors with improper priors in hierarchical linear mixed models

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-95

  Sun, Dongchu ^a   Tsutakawa, Robert K ^a   He, Zhuoqiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear mixed models; Gibbs sampling; Linear mixed models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multivariate normal; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035613485     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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