A long-normal distribution model of the effect of bacteria and ear fenestration on hearing loss: A Bayesian approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 493-508

  Gajewski, Byron J ^a   Sedwick, Jack D ^b   Antonelli, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Data augmentation; Gibbs sampler; Hierarchical model; MCMC; Relative risk

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR SURGERY; FENESTRATION; GUINEA PIG; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULE; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONIC DISEASE; EAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FENESTRATION, LABYRINTH; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842281898     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1606     Document Type: Article

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