Computation of reference Bayesian inference for variance components in longitudinal studies

Computational Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 587-604

  Tsai, Miao Yu ^a   Hsiao, Chuhsing K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian; GLMM; Jeffreys' prior; PQL; Reference prior; Uniform shrinkage prior; Variance component

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549108901     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-007-0100-x     Document Type: Article

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