Nonparametric Bayesian survival analysis using mixtures of Weibull distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 578-596

  Kottas, Athanasios ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored observations; Dirichlet process mixture models; Hazard function; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044451526     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2004.08.009     Document Type: Article

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