A note on Bayesian residuals as a hierarchical model diagnostic technique

Statistical Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Yan, Guofen ^a   Sedransk, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical structure; Model assessment; Posterior predictive distribution; Q Q plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350660808     PISSN: 09325026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00362-007-0111-2     Document Type: Note

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