Identifiability, Improper Priors, and Gibbs Sampling for Generalized Linear Models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 247-253

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Sahu, Sujit K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence; Embedded posterior; Estimability; Integrability; Non full rank models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442309445     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473840     Document Type: Article

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