Bayesian measures of explained variance and pooling in multilevel (hierarchical) models

Technometrics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-251

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Pardoe, Iain ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusted R 2 Bayesian inference; Hierarchical model; Multilevel regression; Partial pooling; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTED R2 BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; MULTILEVEL REGRESSION; PARTIAL POOLING;

DATA STRUCTURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRINKAGE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33744531866     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/004017005000000517     Document Type: Article

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