Bayesian posterior estimation of logit parameters with small samples

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 88-117

  Galindo Garre, Francisca ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^a   Bergsma, Wicher P ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EURANDOM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Logit models; Prior distributions; Small samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543029221     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124104265997     Document Type: Review

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