brms: An R package for Bayesian multilevel models using Stan

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 80, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Bürkner, Paul Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; MCMC; Multilevel model; Ordinal data; R; Stan

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028555867     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v080.i01     Document Type: Article

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