A Bayesian approach to model-based clustering for binary panel probit models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 261-279

  Aÿmann, Christian ^a   Boysen Hogrefe, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Cross validation; MCMC methods; Mixture modeling; Panel probit model

Indexed keywords

BINS; SPECIFICATIONS;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; CROSS VALIDATION; MCMC METHOD; MIXTURE MODEL; PROBIT MODELS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77958025719     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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