A Comparison of Inverse-Wishart Prior Specifications for Covariance Matrices in Multilevel Autoregressive Models

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2016, Pages 185-206

  Schuurman, N K ^a   Grasman, R P P P ^b   Hamaker, E L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

covariance matrix; hierarchical Bayesian modeling; Inverse Wishart; multilevel autoregressive model; noninformative prior; time series

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961923991     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2015.1065398     Document Type: Article

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