Jeffreys priors for survival models with censored data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 193-209

  Santis, Fulvio De ^a   Mortera, Julia ^b   Nardi, Alessandra ^c  

^a Dipartimento di Psicologia   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

62 A 15; 62 F 15; Censoring; Coverage probabilities; Default priors; Jeffreys prior; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041405793     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00080-5     Document Type: Article

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