Bayesian methods for alleviating identification issues with applications in health and insurance areas

In areas such as health and insurance, there can be data limitations that may cause an identification problem in statistical modeling. Ignoring the issues may result in bias in statistical inference. Bayesian methods have been proven to be useful in alleviating identification issues by incorporating...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xia, Chaoxiong
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44559