Adaptive prior weighting in generalized regression

Biometrics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 242-251

  Held, Leonhard ^a   Sauter, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

g prior; Generalized regression; Hyper g prior; INLA; Prior weight; Prior data conflict

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

G-PRIOR; GENERALIZED REGRESSION; HYPER-G PRIOR; INTEGRATED NESTED LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; LAPLACE'S APPROXIMATION; P-VALUES; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR WEIGHT; PRIOR-DATA CONFLICT; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BORN APPROXIMATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84971250026     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12541     Document Type: Article

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