Bayesian Semiparametric Regression for Median Residual Life

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 651-665

  Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Kottas, Athanasios ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Dirichlet process mixing; Residual survival curve; Skewness; Split densities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242627215     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00356     Document Type: Article

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