Analysis of multivariate skew normal models with incomplete data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2337-2351

  Lin, Tsung I ^a   Ho, Hsiu J ^a   Chen, Chiang L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ECM algorithm; Gibbs sampler; MSN model; Multiple imputation; Multivariate truncated normal; Posterior distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249127181     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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