Parametric nonparametric statistics: An introduction to mixtures of finite Polya trees

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 296-306

  Christensen, Ronald ^a   Hanson, Timothy ^b   Jara, Alejandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Generalized linear mixed model; GLMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049128053     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X366983     Document Type: Article

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