On posterior consistency of survival models

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 666-686

  Kim, Yongdai ^a   Lee, Jaeyong ^b  

^a Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

L vy process; Neutral to the right process; Posterior consistency; Survival model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539844     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1009210685     Document Type: Article

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