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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Bayesian Inference for Categorical Data with Misclassification Errors
by
Masahiro Kuroda
Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Japan
Coauthors: Geng Zhi (Peking University, China)

In epidemiological studies, observed data are often collected subject to misclassification errors. In this paper, we discuss the Bayesian estimation for contingency table with misclassification errors. Employing the exact Bayesian computations to obtain posterior means as estimates, we are faced with computational difficulties. In order to find the posterior distribution given misclassified categorical data, we apply the data augmentaion algorithm that is one kind of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

Date received: September 12, 2001

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