Parameter Expanded Algorithms for Bayesian Latent Variable Modeling of Genetic Pleiotropy Data

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 405-425

  Xu, Lizhen ^a   Craiu, Radu V ^a   Sun, Lei ^a   Paterson, Andrew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Latent variable; Marginal data augmentation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971422205     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2014.988337     Document Type: Article

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