A Bayesian approach to non-parametric monotone function estimation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-175

  Shively, Thomas S ^a   Sager, Thomas W ^a   Walker, Stephen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic properties; Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling scheme; Mixture prior distributions; Regression splines; Small sample properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149328921     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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