A New Skewed Link Model for Dichotomous Quantal Response Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 448, 1999, Pages 1172-1186

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^b   Shao, Qi Man ^c  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian hierarchical model; Informative prior; Latent variable; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442309548     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473872     Document Type: Article

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