Bayesian model averaging employing fixed and flexible priors: The BMS package for R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 68, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zeugner, Stefan ^a   Feldkircher, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Binomial beta prior; BMS; Customized prior inclusion probabilities; Empirical Bayes; Hyper g prior; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949883321     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v068.i04     Document Type: Article

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