Acute Middle Ear Infection in Small Children: A Bayesian Analysis Using Multiple Time Scales

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-137

  Andreev, A ^a   Arjas, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Constrained estimation; Frailty; Hazard rate; Heterogeneity; Lexis diagram; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OTITIS MEDIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031603945     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009629422623     Document Type: Article

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