Bayesian inference for logistic models using Pólya-Gamma latent variables

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 108, Issue 504, 2013, Pages 1339-1349

  Polson, Nicholas G ^a   Scott, James G ^b   Windle, Jesse ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Data augmentation; Logistic regression; Negative binomial regression; P lya Gamma distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884917671     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.829001     Document Type: Article

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