Posterior and cross-validatory predictive checks: A comparison of MCMC and INLA

Statistical Modelling and Regression Structures: Festschrift in Honour of Ludwig Fahrmeir

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 91-110

  Held, Leonhard ^a   Schrödle, Birgit ^a   Rue, Håvard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; INLA; Leave one out cross validation; MCMC; Posterior predictive model checks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955479019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2413-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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