Polya tree distributions for statistical modeling of censored data

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-186

  Neath, Andrew A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametric problems; Finite dimensional distributions; Mix ture distributions; Survival data

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449095802     PISSN: 11739126     EISSN: 15327612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1173912603000166     Document Type: Article

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