Data augmentation in multi-way contingency tables with fixed marginal totals

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 355-372

  Dobra, Adrian ^a   Tebaldi, Claudia ^b   West, Mike ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Disclosure limitation; Fixed margins problem; Imputation; Log linear models; Markov basis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644538900     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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