Sequential imputations and Bayesian missing data problems

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 89, Issue 425, 1994, Pages 278-288

  Kong, Augustine ^a   Liu, Jun S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Importance sampling; Missing data; Predictive distribution; Sequential imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950943564     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1994.10476469     Document Type: Article

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