Propriety of the posterior distribution and existence of the MLE for regression models with covariates missing at random

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 466, 2004, Pages 421-438

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^b   Shao, Qi Man ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Binary regression model; Covariate distribution; Design matrix; Generalized linear model; Maple; Missing at random; Necessary and sufficient conditions; Noninformative prior; Parametric survival model; Poisson regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942538581     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000368     Document Type: Article

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