Computing marginal likelihoods from a single MCMC output

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-29

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Cure rate survival model; Estimation of normalizing constant; Latent variable models; Ordinal regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544377553     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2005.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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