Semiparametric bayesian analysis of survival data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 1195-1212

  Sinha, Debajyoti ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^b  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented data; Cox model; Frailty; MCMC algorithm; Posterior estimates; Prior process

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744461790     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474077     Document Type: Article

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