Bayesian Binomial Regression: Predicting Survival at a Trauma Center

American Statistician

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 211-218

  Bedrick, Edward J ^a   Christensen, Ronald ^a   Johnson, Wesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Importance sampling; Kullback Leibler divergence; Logistic regression; Model selection; Prediction; Probit analysis; Regression diagnostics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031531928     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1997.10473965     Document Type: Article

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