A simple approach to fitting Bayesian survival models

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-19

  Gustafson, Paul ^a   Aeschliman, Dana ^b   Levy, Adrian R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian survival analysis; Copula model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Semiparametric hazard; Time dependent covariate effects

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037364138     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021821002693     Document Type: Article

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