A nonparametric Bayesian model for inference in related longitudinal studies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 611-626

  Müller, Peter ^a   Rosner, Gary L ^a   De Iorio, Maria ^b   MacEachern, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Limited sampling; Nonparametric Bayesian inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444393420     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.05475.x     Document Type: Article

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