Speaking stata: I. J. good and quasi-bayes smoothing of categorical frequencies

Stata Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 306-314

  Cox, Nicholas J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Contingency tables; Mata; Pseudo Bayes; Qsbayes; Qsbayesi; Quasi Bayes; Random zeros; Sampling zeros; Smoothing; StO168

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949113856     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0900900209     Document Type: Article

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