Markov melding
ST955: Dissertation, MSc Statistics, University of Warwick
Markov melding, proposed in the paper Joining and splitting models with Markov melding by Robert Goudie and colleagues, is a Bayesian computational method for evidence synthesis.
This masters dissertation is an outline of the method, together with an implementation of the algorithm in R
applied to a simulated data example.
meld/thesis/02-modelling.Rmd
for Chapter 2. The final thesis is uploaded here.meld/code/smith_mwg.R
, Bayesian fixed-effects meta-analysis using meld/code/fixed_mwg.R
and Markov melded model using meld/code/meld_mwg.R
.