Posterior predictive model checking in hierarchical models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 209-221

  Sinharay, Sandip ^a   Stern, Hal S ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrepancy; Marginal model; Posterior predictive p value; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037290204     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00303-8     Document Type: Article

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