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Re: st: How to deal with the quasi-complete separation problem in the logit part of ZINB analysis
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Re: st: How to deal with the quasi-complete separation problem in the logit part of ZINB analysis
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Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:07:43 -0400
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is a Jeffreys prior, or a Jeffreys' prior, as it was the idea of
> Sir Harold Jeffreys.
>
> In a letter to me in 1976 he wrote that he preferred the form
> Jeffreys's, but this is rarely seen.
Yeah I always misspell that! Jeffreys is a last name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_jeffreys
Anyway, Firth's paper is a very nice idea and quite clearly written.
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