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Incorporating prior information into the analysis of contingency tables. (English) Zbl 0715.62106

Summary: Contingency tables are often analyzed using log-linear models and in some situations prior information on the value of parameters in the log-linear model is available. We describe a prior-posterior procedure that incorporates prior information directly into the analysis through a multivariate normal prior for the log-linear parameters. The mode and curvature of the posterior density are proposed as summary statistics.

MSC:

62H17 Contingency tables
62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
62F15 Bayesian inference
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