Computational methods for multiplicative intensity models using weighted gamma processes: Proportional hazards, marked point processes, and panel count data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 465, 2004, Pages 175-190

  Ishwaran, Hemant ^a   James, Lancelot F ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blocked Gibbs sampler; Dirichlet process; Hazard function; Intensity; Kernel; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; P lya urn Gibbs sampler; Recurrent events; Spatially correlated counts

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142830935     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000179     Document Type: Article

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