Empirical Bayes Methods for Combining Likelihoods

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 538-550

  Efron, Bradley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC method; Confidence expectation; Generalized linear mixed models; Hierarchical Bayes; Meta analysis for likelihoods; Relevance; Special exponential families

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347568778     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476919     Document Type: Article

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