A Bayesian non-parametric comparison of two treatments

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-56

  Damien, Paul ^a   Walker, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta process; Censored data Bayesian bootstrap; Exchangeability; Partial exchangeability; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036005409     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00891     Document Type: Article

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