A conservative prior for bayesian hierarchical models in biostatistics

Hierarchical models are suitable and very natural to model many real life phenomena, where data arise in nested fashion. The use of Bayesian approach to hierarchical models has numerous advantages over the classical approach. Estimating a phenomenon with hierarchical model can be viewed as a smoothi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hossain, Md. Shahadut
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14419