The Bernstein-von Mises theorem in semiparametric competing risks models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2316-2328

  De Blasi, Pierpaolo ^a   Hjort, Nils Lid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian nonparametrics; Bernstein von Mises theorem; Beta process; Cause specific conditional probability; Competing risks; Semiparametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049084353     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.10.018     Document Type: Article

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