Bayesian Model Averaging and Variable Selection in Multivariate Ecological Models

Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) is a new area in modern applied statistics that provides data analysts with an efficient tool for discovering promising models and obtaining esti-mates of their posterior probabilities via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). These probabilities can be further used as weig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipkovich, Ilya A.
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11045
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04182002-020608