A mixture model for bovine abortion and foetal survival

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1725-1739

  Hanson, Timothy ^a   Bedrick, Edward J ^a   Johnson, Wesley O ^b   Thurmond, Mark C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Bayesian inference; Cox model; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; FETUS MORTALITY; HERD; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0038025641     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1376     Document Type: Article

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