Caries on permanent teeth: A nonparametric Bayesian analysis

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 577-588

  Harkanen, Tommi ^a   Virtanen, Jorma I ^b   Arjas, Elja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Frailty model; Intensity model; Markov chain Monte Carlo method; Measurement model; Multivariate survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338194     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00209     Document Type: Article

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