Inference From Intrinsic Bayes’ Procedures Under Model Selection and Uncertainty

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 109, Issue 507, 2014, Pages 1040-1053

  Womack, Andrew J ^a,b   León Novelo, Luis ^c   Casella, George ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; g priors; Hierarchical models; Intrinsic priors; Linear models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907486731     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.880348     Document Type: Article

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