Semiparametric hierarchical selection models for Bayesian meta analysis

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 825-839

  Chung, Younshik ^a   Dipak, D E Y ^b   Jang, Junghoon ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian meta analysis; Clinical informative prior; Dirichlet process prior; Gibbs sampler; Hierarchical selection model; Metropolis algorithm; Mixture of Dirichlet process; Weight function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036811346     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650214672     Document Type: Article

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