boa: An R package for MCMC output convergence assessment and posterior inference

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1-37

  Smith, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Convergence diagnostics; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Posterior inference; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349019755     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v021.i11     Document Type: Article

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