Propriety of posterior distribution for dichotomous quantal response models

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 293-302

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Shao, Qi Man ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Improper prior; Log log model; Logit model; Maximum likelihood estimate; Probit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044522526     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05513-1     Document Type: Article

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