Conting: An R package for bayesian analysis of complete and incomplete contingency tables

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1-27

  Overstall, Antony M ^a   King, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capture recapture studies; Contingency tables; Log linear models; Reversible jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920749060     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v058.i07     Document Type: Article

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