Bayesian structured additive distributional regression with an application to regional income inequality in Germany

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1024-1052

  Klein, Nadja ^a   Kneib, Thomas ^a   Lang, Stefan ^b   Sohn, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Generalised additive models for location; Income distribution; Iteratively weighted least squares proposal; Markov chain monte carlo; Scale and shape; Semiparametric regression; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938510555     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/15-AOAS823     Document Type: Article

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