On the propriety of a modified Jeffreys's prior for variance components in binary random effects models

✍ Scribed by Ranjini Natarajan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7152
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(00)00182-6

✦ Synopsis

This paper proves that a modiÿed Je reys's prior on the variance components in binary random e ects models is integrable under mild conditions on the link function. These conditions are shown to be satisÿed for two commonly used link functions, the logit and probit functions.