Bayesian accelerated failure time model for correlated interval-censored data with a normal mixture as error distribution

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 549-569

  Komárek, Arnošt ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clustered data; Multicenter study; Regression; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547507940     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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