Modeling censored lifetime data using a mixture of gammas baseline

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 575-594

  Hanson, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time; Dirichlet process mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249224985     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/06-BA119     Document Type: Article

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