Using model/data simulations to detect streakiness

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-50

  Albert, Jim ^a   Williamson, Patricia ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Coin tossing; Hothand; Markov switching model; Overdispersion, quasibinomial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035625773     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001300339923     Document Type: Article

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