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Predictive Distributions in the Presence of Measurement Errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Irwin Guttman  and
Ulrich Menzefricke
Irwin Guttman
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Suny at Buffalo, 249 Farber Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214
Ulrich Menzefricke
Affiliation:
Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3E6
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We consider a hierarchical linear regression model where the regression parameters for the units have a multivariate normal distribution whose parameters are unknown. Several replications are available for each unit. The design matrices for the units need not be the same. A complicating feature of the model is that each observation is subject to measurement error. The objective of the paper is to derive the predictive distribution of the “true” value of the response at a given design point. A Bayesian treatment is given to the problem. In addition to standard prior distributions, other prior distributions are considered. The calculations are done with the Gibbs sampler. An example is discussed in detail.

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Research Article
Information
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 601 - 611
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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