Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of correlated count data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 428-435

  Chib, Siddhartha ^a   Winkelmann, Rainer ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Latent effects; Metropolis hastings algorithm; Multivariate count data; Poisson lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035641603     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/07350010152596673     Document Type: Article

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