Posterior propriety and computation for the Cox regression model with applications to missing covariates

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 791-807

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Ibrahim, Joseph G ^b   Shao, Qi Man ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gamma process prior; Latent variable; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Missing at random; Necessary and sufficient conditions; Partial likelihood; Proportional hazards model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845764730     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.4.791     Document Type: Article

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