Point estimates for variance-structure parameters in Bayesian analysis of hierarchical models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2560-2577

  He, Yi ^a   Hodges, James S ^b  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; Point estimate; Posterior distribution; Precision; Standard deviation; Variance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIERARCHICAL MODEL; POINT ESTIMATE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRECISION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149091533     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.08.021     Document Type: Article

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