Investigation of a generalized multinomial model for species data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 347-362

  Zhang, Hongmei ^a   Stern, Hal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Generalized multinomial model; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844556855     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0094965042000191631     Document Type: Article

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