Bayesian model determination for multivariate ordinal and binary data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2632-2649

  Webb, Emily L ^a   Forster, Jonathan J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graphical model; Ordinal probit model; Reversible jump MCMC

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHOLESKY FORM; GRAPHICAL MODEL; ORDINAL PROBIT MODEL; REVERSIBLE JUMP MCMC;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 38149007781     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

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