Predictive variable selection in generalized linear models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 459, 2002, Pages 859-871

  Meyer, M C ^a   Laud, P W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate prior; Gibbs sampling; L criterion; Normal prior; Predictive distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036745528     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214502388618654     Document Type: Article

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