Broken biological size relationships: A truncated semiparametric regression approach with measurement error

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 836-845

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Mallick, Bani K ^b   Polasek, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Mixtures of betas; Model choice; Simulation based fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 30244487984     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474039     Document Type: Article

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