A comparison of nonparametric priors in hierarchical mixture modelling for AFT regression

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3989-4005

  Argiento, Raffaele ^a   Guglielmi, Alessandra ^a,b   Pievatolo, Antonio ^a  

^a CNR IMATI   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time regression models; Bayesian semiparametrics; MCMC algorithms; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249220082     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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