Hierarchical models for estimating state and demographic trends in US death penalty public opinion

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-28

  Shirley, Kenneth E ^a   Gelman, Andrew ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallup survey; General Social Survey; Hierarchical Bayes methods; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Multilevel model; Political science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916603078     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12052     Document Type: Article

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