A new class of average moment matching priors

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 514-520

  Ganesh, N ^a   Lahiri, P ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical Bayes; Matched priors; Mixed linear model

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849122931     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn008     Document Type: Article

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