Large sample Bayesian inference on the parameters of the proportional hazard models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2573-2585

  Faraggi, David ^a   Simon, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK;

EID: 0030664978     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971130)16:22<2573::AID-SIM685>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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