Fluctuation of estimates in an EM procedure for categorical data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 941-957

  Kim, Seong Ho ^a   Kim, Sung Ho ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bayes method; Calibrated initial values; Conditional positive association; Directed acyclic graph; Rank order of estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344478272     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650412331299175     Document Type: Article

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