The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...

New relations are derived for Bayesian estimation of parameters in nonlinear multiresponse models. Modal and interval estimates are provided for the parameter vector θ of a multiresponse expectation ...

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A stochastic volatility model where volatility was driven solely by a latent variable called news was estimated for three stock indices. A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm was used for estimating ...