Joint specification of model space and parameter space prior distributions

Statistical Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 232-246

  Dellaportas, Petros ^a   Forster, Jonathan J ^b   Ntzoufras, Ioannis ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; BIC; Generalized linear models; Lindley's paradox; Model averaging; Regression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871583788     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-STS369     Document Type: Article

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