Default Bayesian model determination methods for generalised linear mixed models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3269-3288

  Overstall, Antony M ^a   Forster, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bridge sampling; Laplace approximation; MCMC; Unit information priors

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN MODEL; BRIDGE SAMPLINGS; LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MCMC; MODEL PROBABILITIES; UNIT-INFORMATION PRIORS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 77955397404     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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