Prediction of U.S. cancer mortality counts using semiparametric bayesian techniques

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 477, 2007, Pages 7-15

  Ghosh, Kaushik ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Health statistics; Local linear model; Local quadratic model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; State space model; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947210921     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000762     Document Type: Article

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