Bayesian frailty models based on box-cox transformed hazards

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 781-794

  Yin, Guosheng ^a,c   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive hazards; Bayesian inference; Box Cox transformation; Constrained parameter; Frailty model; Gibbs sampling; Proportional hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144446701     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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