Investigation of bimodality in likelihoods and posterior densities

DOI10.1080/00949659608811741zbMath0899.62039OpenAlexW1998183611MaRDI QIDQ4357253

Robin Thompson, Mehmet Ziya Firat

Publication date: 15 November 1998

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949659608811741

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihoodvariance componentsbimodalityanimal breedingbalanced one-way sire model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

Cites Work

• A note on local maxima in maximum likelihood, restricted maximum likelihood, and baysian estimation of variance components
• Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Variance Component Estimation and to Related Problems
• Recovery of inter-block information when block sizes are unequal

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