Modeling regression error with a mixture of Polya trees

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 460, 2002, Pages 1020-1033

  Hanson, Timothy ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time; Polya tree; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036969133     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214502388618843     Document Type: Article

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