Bayesian analysis of two-component mixture distributions applied to estimating malaria attributable fractions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 575-587

  Vounatsou, P ^a   Smith, T ^a   Smith, A F M ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attributable fractions; Bayesian methods; Malaria; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Mixture decomposition; Nonparametric methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040579408     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00129     Document Type: Article

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