A Bayesian mixture model relating dose to critical organs and functional complication in 3D conformal radiation therapy

Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 615-632

  Johnson, Timothy D ^a   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a   Ten Haken, Randall K ^b   Eisbruch, Avraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiation therapy; Bayesian analysis; Dirac measure; Goodness of fit; MCMC; Mixture model; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644449846     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxi032     Document Type: Article

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