Non-standard semiparametric regression via BRugs

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-30

  Marley, Jennifer K ^a   Wand, Matt P ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Additive models; BUGS; Hierarchical bayesian models; Markov chain monte carlo; Measurement error models; Missing data; Mixed models; Penalized splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650533815     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v037.i05     Document Type: Article

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