Mixtures of Polya trees for flexible spatial frailty survival modelling

Biometrika

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 263-276

  Zhao, Luping ^a   Hanson, Timothy E ^b   Carlin, Bradley P ^b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal data; Bayesian modelling; Breast cancer; Conditionally autoregressive model; Log pseudo marginal likelihood; Nonparametric modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249141260     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asp014     Document Type: Article

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