Conservative prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-390

  Gustafson, Paul ^a   Hossain, Shahadut ^a   Macnab, Ying C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Hierarchical model; Linear mixed model; Prior distribution; Variance component

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751210940     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550340302     Document Type: Article

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