Bayesian variable selection in logistic regression: Predicting company earnings direction

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-168

  Gerlach, Richard ^a   Bird, Ron ^a   Hall, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Slice sampler; Stepwise regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036000545     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00218     Document Type: Article

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