How vague is vague? A simulation study of the impact of the use of vague prior distributions in MCMC using WinBUGS

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2401-2428

  Lambert, Paul C ^a   Sutton, Alex J ^a   Burton, Paul R ^a   Abrams, Keith R ^a   Jones, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Prior distributions; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OTITIS MEDIA; PROBABILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OTITIS MEDIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 23244434820     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2112     Document Type: Article

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