Bayesian methods for searching for optimal rules for timing intercourse to achieve pregnancy

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1920-1936

  Scarpa, Bruno ^a   Dunson, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model selection; Conception probability; Decision theory; Gibbs sampler; Loss function; Stochastic search; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONCEPTION; DECISION THEORY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; ITALY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTIVATION; MUCUS SECRETION; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CERVIX MUCUS; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047216108     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2846     Document Type: Article

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