Bayesian variable selection for proportional hazards models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 701-717

  Ibrahim, Joseph G ^a   Chen, Ming Hui ^b   MacEachern, Steven N ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Life Science and Bioengineering Center   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox model; Discrete gamma process; Gibbs sampling; Nonparametric prior; Posterior probability; Prior model probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033266924     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3316126     Document Type: Article

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