Multivariate survival analysis with positive stable frailties

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 637-644

  Qiou, Zuqiang ^a   Ravishanker, Nalini ^b   Dey, Dipak K ^b  

^a Palisades Research Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated prior process; Frailty; Infinite variance; Metropolis algorithm; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN MODELLING; CORRELATED PRIOR PROCESS; FRAILTY; INFINITE VARIANCES; METROPOLIS ALGORITHMS; MULTIVARIATE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; PIECE-WISE; POSITIVE STABLE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; SURVIVAL DATA;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033043247     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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