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In this paper the Bayesian approach for nonlinear multivariate calibration will be illustrated. This goal will be achieved by applying the Gibbs sampler to the rhinoceros data given by Clarke (1992, Biometrics, 48(4), 1081–1094). It will be shown that the point estimates obtained from the profile likelihoods and those calculated from the marginal posterior densities using improper priors will in most cases be similar.
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du Plessis, J.L., van der Merwe, A.J. Bayesian calibration in the estimation of the age of rhinoceros. Ann Inst Stat Math 48, 17–28 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00049286
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