Joint Modelling of Recurrent Infections and Antibody Response by Bayesian Data Augmentation

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 677-698

  Eerola, Mervi ^a   Gasbarra, Dario ^a   Helena Makela P ^b   Linden, Henri ^a   Andreev, Andrei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b University of Helsinki ^*

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Interdependent random processes; MCMC for conditioned diffusions; Pneumococcal ear infections

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242627214     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00358     Document Type: Article

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