Automatic choice of driving values in Monte Carlo likelihood approximation via posterior simulations

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-109

  Kuk, Anthony Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; Data duplication; Generalized linear mixed models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Missing data; Prior sharpening; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347724157     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023248207299     Document Type: Article

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