Multivariate Student-t regression models: Pitfalls and inference

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-167

  Fernandez, Carmen ^a   Steel, Mark F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Continuous distribution; Maximum likelihood; Missing data; Scale mixture of normals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746447668     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.1.153     Document Type: Article

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