Illustration of Bayesian inference in normal data models using Gibbs sampling

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 85, Issue 412, 1990, Pages 972-985

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Hills, Susan E ^b   Racine Poon, Amy ^c   Smith, Adrian F M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CIBA GEIGY LTD   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Hierarchical models; Marginalization; Missing data; Nonlinear parameters; Order restricted inference; Variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865262077     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1990.10474968     Document Type: Article

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