| Literature DB >> 24453380 |
Shijie Chen1, P Lahiri2.
Abstract
Design-based methods are generally inefficient for making inferences about small area proportions for rare events. In this paper, we discuss an alternative hierarchical model and the associated hierarchical Bayes methodology. Sufficient conditions for propriety of the posterior distributions of relevant parameters are presented.Entities:
Keywords: Credible interval; MCMC; Rare event
Year: 2012 PMID： 24453380 PMCID： PMC3896051
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Indian Soc Agric Stat ISSN： 0019-6363