Assessing Poisson variation of intestinal tumour multiplicity in mice carrying a Robertsonian translocation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-138

  Newton, Michael A ^a,c   Hastie, David I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer biology; Model averaging; Model choice; Multiple intestinal neoplasia; Negative binomial; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Tumour initiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645069139     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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