The use of simple reparameterizations to improve the efficiency of Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation for multilevel models with applications to discrete time survival models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 579-598

  Browne, William J ^a   Steele, Fiona ^a   Golalizadeh, Mousa ^a   Green, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete time survival models; Event history models; Hierarchical centring; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Multilevel modelling; Orthogonal transformations

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649136220     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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