Goodness-of-Fit Diagnostics for Bayesian Hierarchical Models

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 156-164

  Yuan, Ying ^a   Johnson, Valen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrepancy measures; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Model checking; Model criticism; Model hierarchy; Posterior predictive density

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MICROCHANNELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING; DISCREPANCY MEASURES; GOODNESS OF FIT; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; MODEL CRITICISM; MODEL HIERARCHY; MODELS CHECKING; POSTERIOR-PREDICTIVE DENSITY; PREDICTIVE DENSITY;

MODEL CHECKING;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84858865835     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01668.x     Document Type: Article

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