Criticism of a hierarchical model using Bayes factors

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-305

  Albert, James H ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COVARIANCE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033557182     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990215)18:3<287::AID-SIM18>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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