Bayesian identifiability and misclassification in multinomial data

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-302

  Swartz, Tim ^a   Haitovsky, Yoel ^b   Vexler, Albert ^c   Yang, Tae ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c International Relations and Statistical Coordination Department   (Israel)

^d Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Convergence of Markov chains; Dirichlet priors; Gibbs sampling; Latent variables; Misclassification; Nonidentifiability

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044294630     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315930     Document Type: Review

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