Bayesian hierarchical models in manufacturing bulk service queues

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 335-354

  Armero, Carmen ^a   Conesa, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bulk service queues; Congestion in manufacturing systems; Hierarchical Bayesian analysis; Markov Chain Monte Carlo integration; Numerical inversion of transforms; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644511323     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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