PSBAYES: Stata module to perform pseudo-Bayes smoothing of cell estimates

Nicholas Cox ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: psbayes takes datavar, which should be a set of frequencies, and shrinks or smooths it towards a set of frequencies implied by prior probabilities. This will have the effect of replacing sampling zeros by positive estimates whenever the priors are positive. psbayes6 may be used in Stata versions 6 or 7.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2 (6.0 for psbayes6)
Keywords: categorical data; pseudo-Bayes smoothing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-07-23, Revised 2004-08-16
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc inst psbayes". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/psbayes.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/psbayes.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/psbayes6.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/p/psbayes6.hlp help file (text/plain)

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