On MCMC sampling in hierarchical longitudinal models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-26

  Chib, Siddhartha ^a   Carlin, Bradley P ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Convergence acceleration; Correlated binary data; Gibbs sampler; Linear mixed model; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Panel data; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043047984     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008853808677     Document Type: Article

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