Bayesian modeling of age-specific survival in nesting studies under dirichlet priors

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1059-1066

  He, Chong Z ^a   Sun, Dongchu ^a   Tra, Yolande ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Age specific survival; Bayesian estimation; Censoring; Gibbs sampling; Latent variable; Nest study; Truncation

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AGE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BAYESIAN MODELLING; CENSORING; GIBBS SAMPLING; LATENT VARIABLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; NEST STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRUNCATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; NEST; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035181063     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.01059.x     Document Type: Article

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