Estimation in dirichlet random effects models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 979-1009

  Kyung, Minjung ^a   Gill, Jeff ^b   Casella, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimation; Generalized linear mixed models; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical models; Linear mixed models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649315113     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS731     Document Type: Article

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