Bayesian tests on components of the compound symmetry covariance matrix

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-122

  Mulder, Joris ^a   Fox, Jean Paul ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Compound symmetry; Covariance matrices; Gibbs Sampler; Intra class correlation; Savage Dickey density ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872596638     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-011-9295-3     Document Type: Article

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