Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian analysis of survival data using mixtures of Dirichlet process priors

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 282-307

  Doss, Hani ^a   Huffer, Fred W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interval censoring; MCMC; Sequential importance sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038344441     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860031680     Document Type: Review

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