Measuring the complexity of generalized linear hierarchical models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-87

  Lu, Haolan ^a   Hodges, James S ^b   Carlin, Bradley P ^b  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive model; Degrees of freedom; Effective number of parameters; Generalized linear hierarchical model; Model complexity; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249277377     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550350108     Document Type: Review

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