Accelerating Monte Carlo Markov chain convergence for cumulative-link generalized linear models

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-111

  Cowles, Mary Kathryn ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Collapsing; Data augmentation; Gibbs sampler; Latent data

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344474305     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00162520     Document Type: Article

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