Transmission of Pneumococcal Carriage in Families: A Latent Markov Process Model for Binary Longitudinal Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 1044-1053

  Auranen, Kari ^a   Arjas, Elja ^a   Leino, Tuija ^b   Takala, Aino K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Conditional independence modeling; Data augmentation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Recurrent infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325064     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474301     Document Type: Article

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