Informative g-priors for logistic regression

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 597-612

  Hanson, Timothy E ^a   Branscum, Adam J ^b   Johnson, Wesley O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial regression; Generalized linear model; Prior elicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916883392     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-BA868     Document Type: Article

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