Inequalities between expected marginal log-likelihoods, with implications for likelihood-based model complexity and comparison measures

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-250

  Trevisani, Matilde ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance information criterion; Generalized linear mixed models; Hierarchical models; Predictive distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742323765     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316084     Document Type: Article

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