Consistency of bayesian procedures for variable selection

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1207-1228

  Casella, George ^a,b   Girón, F Javier ^a,c   Martinez, M Lina ^a,c   Moreno, Elias ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Consistency; Intrinsic priors; Linear models

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649116029     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS606     Document Type: Article

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