de Finetti Priors using Markov chain Monte Carlo computations

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 797-808

  Bacallado, Sergio ^a   Diaconis, Persi ^a   Holmes, Susan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Contingency tables; Independence; MCMC; Priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932199647     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: 15731375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-015-9562-9     Document Type: Article

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