A conjugate prior for discrete hierarchical log-linear models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 A, 2009, Pages 3431-3467

  Massam, Hélène ^a   Liu, Jinnan ^a   Dobra, Adrian ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate prior; Contingency tables; Hierarchical log linear models; Hyper Dirichlet; Hyper Markov property; Model selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949150574     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS669     Document Type: Article

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