Bayesian analysis of multivariate survival data using Monte Carlo methods

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-48

  Aslanidou, Helen ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^a   Sinha, Debajyoti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelated prior process; Credible regions; Frailty; Martingale; Metropolis algorithm; Model diagnostics; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032400352     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315671     Document Type: Review

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