A hierarchical Bayes model for multilocation auditing

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 431-450

  Laws, David J ^a   O'Hagan, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Elicitation; Multilocation inference; Nonparametrics; Rejection sampling; Simulation; Statistical auditing; Stratified populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484153     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00329     Document Type: Article

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