Prior data for non-normal priors

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3578-3590

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Biostatistics; Odds ratio; Relative risk; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEWBORN DEATH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547529771     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2788     Document Type: Article

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