An exact non-iterative sampling procedure for discrete missing data problems

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-242

  Tian, Guo Liang ^a   Tan, Ming ^a   Ng, Kai Wang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Data augmentation algorithm; EM algorithm; Gibbs sampler; IBF sampler; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247615458     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2007.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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