A Bayesian analysis for longitudinal semicontinuous data with an application to an acupuncture clinical trial

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 699-706

  Ghosh, Pulak ^a   Albert, Paul S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN METHODOLOGIES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BREAST CANCERS; BROWNIAN MOTIONS; CLINICAL TRIALS; LINEAR PREDICTORS; LONGITUDINAL DATUMS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; NONLINEAR TREATMENTS; SEMICONTINUOUS; SERIAL CORRELATIONS; WINBUGS;

ACUPUNCTURE;

EID: 56349168367     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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