BITE: A Bayesian Intensity Estimator

Computational Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 565-583

  Härkänen, Tommi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Event history data analysis; Interval censoring; Multistate model; Software package; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242627500     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03354617     Document Type: Article

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