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Weight Smoothing for Generalized Linear Models Using a Laplace Prior Cover

Weight Smoothing for Generalized Linear Models Using a Laplace Prior

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 32 (2016): Issue 2 (June 2016)
By: Xi Xia and  Michael R. Elliott  
Open Access
|May 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jos-2016-0026 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 507 - 539
Submitted on: Jun 1, 2014
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Accepted on: Nov 1, 2015
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Published on: May 28, 2016
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Weight trimming,
winsorization,
Bayesian finite population inference,
Hierarchical models
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

© 2016 Xi Xia, Michael R. Elliott, published by Sciendo
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