Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

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A Study on Noninformative Priors of Intraclass Correlation Coefficients in Familial Data

  • Published : 2005.08.01
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Abstract

In this paper, we develop the Jeffreys' prior, reference prior and the the probability matching priors for the difference of intraclass correlation coefficients in familial data. e prove the sufficient condition for propriety of posterior distributions. Using marginal posterior distributions under those noninformative priors, we compare posterior quantiles and frequentist coverage probability.

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