Introduction to Bayesian modelling in dental research

Community Dental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 218-221

  Gilthorpe, Mark S ^a   Maddick, Ian H ^a   Petrie, Aviva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes; Bayesian modelling; Bayesian statistics; Empirical Bayes; Hierarchical modelling; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0034568389     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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