Bayesian marginal inference via Candidate's formula

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-66

  Hsiao, Chuhsing Kate ^a   Huang, Su Yun ^b   Chang, Ching Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Gibbs sampler; Kernel density estimation; Marginal likelihood; Marginal likelihood identity; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hasting algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843051261     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:STCO.0000009416.78796.78     Document Type: Article

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