A transformation approach for incorporating monotone or unimodal constraints

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 434-449

  Gunn, Laura H ^a   Dunson, David B ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Changepoint; Gibbs sampler; Hormone measurements; Menstrual cycle; Nested data; Order restricted inference; Progesterone; Shape constraint

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; BLOOD; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 24144481572     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi020     Document Type: Article

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