Investigating child mortality in malawi using family and community random effects: A bayesian analysis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 12-19

  Bolstad, William M ^a   Manda, Samuel O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayes theorem; Gibbs sampler; Metropolis algorithm; Proportional hazards model; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842665607     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750332659     Document Type: Article

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