Multilevel structured additive regression

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 223-238

  Lang, Stefan ^a   Umlauf, Nikolaus ^a   Wechselberger, Peter ^a   Harttgen, Kenneth ^b   Kneib, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Gaussian random fields; Markov random fields; MCMC; Multiplicative random effects; P splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893913808     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-012-9366-0     Document Type: Article

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