Bayesian nonlinear regression models with scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions: Estimation and case influence diagnostics

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 588-602

  Cancho, Vicente G ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^b   Lachos, Victor H ^c   Andrade, Marinho G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Nonlinear regression models; Scale mixtures of skew normal distributions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; INFLUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; SKEW-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958061677     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.05.032     Document Type: Article

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