Bayesian nonparametric weighted sampling inference

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 605-625

  Si, Yajuan ^a   Pillai, Natesh S ^b   Gelman, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Harvard University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian process prior; Model based survey inference; Poststratification; Stan; Survey weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931468983     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-BA924     Document Type: Article

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