Bayesian analysis of mortality data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-291

  Dellaportas, Petros ^b   Smith, Adrian F M ^a   Stavropoulos, Photis ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Age; Bayesian inference; Incomplete life table; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Mortality data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649763     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00202     Document Type: Article

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