Bayesian Inference from Count Data Using Discrete Uniform Priors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Comoglio, Federico ^a   Fracchia, Letizia ^b   Rinaldi, Maurizio ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE UNIFORM PRIOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84885063218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074388     Document Type: Article

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