Bayesian composite marginal likelihoods

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 149-164

  Pauli, Francesco ^a   Racugno, Walter ^b   Ventura, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic theory; Bayesian inference; Estimating equation; Extreme value theory; Pairwise likelihood; Pseudo likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650339315     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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