Bayesian analysis of multivariate mortality data with large families

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-144

  Chen, Ming Hui ^c   Dey, Dipak K ^a   Sinha, Debajyoti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c University of Connecticut ^*

Author keywords

Augmented data; Gibbs sampling; Hazard rate; Logistic link function; Predictive distribution; Prior elicitation; Variable subset selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354885     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00183     Document Type: Article

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