Monte Carlo methods for approximating a posterior hazard rate process

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Laud, P W ^a   Smith, A F M ^b   Damien, P ^b,c,d  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended gamma process; Hazard rates; Infinitely divisible distributions; Laplace transform; Latent variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344454883     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00161576     Document Type: Article

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