TY - GEN AU - Hamdy Fayez Farahat AU - Alyaa Roshdy Zahran , AU - Tarik A.Amira , TI - Bayesian Estimation of variance components in nested models / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hamdy Fayez Farahat , KW - Bayesian inference KW - Gibbs sampler KW - Inverted gamma prior KW - Nested mixed models KW - Variance components N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Economics and Political Science - Department Of Statistics; Issued also as CD N2 - The Bayesian approach was used , in this study , to overcome the problem of possible negative estimate for the variance components of the classical approaches However , since the full Bayesian approach needs numerical integrations to obtain the marginal posterior distributions which are impossible in many situations , some of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms were implemented in the thesis UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -