Bayesian missing data problems: EM, data augmentation and noniterative computation

Bayesian Missing Data Problems: EM, Data Augmentation and Noniterative Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-317

  Tan, Ming T ^a   Tian, Guo Liang ^b   Ng, Kai Wang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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