Estimating Incumbency Advantage and Its Variation, as an Example of a Before–After Study

DOI10.1198/016214507000000626zbMath1469.62397OpenAlexW2072478702MaRDI QIDQ3632651

Zaiying Huang, Andrew Gelman

Publication date: 12 June 2009

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1198/016214507000000626

zbMATH Keywords

Gibbs samplerMetropolis algorithmBayesian inferencemultilevel modelincumbency advantagecongressional electionbefore-after study

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) History, political science (91F10) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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