Predicting the next pandemic: An exercise in imprecise hazards

ISIPTA 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-46

  Bickis, Miķelis ^a   Bickis, Uǧis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Phoenix OHC ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocorrelated prior; Hazard function; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATED; HAZARD FUNCTION; HISTORICAL DATA; IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WAITING TIME;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBABILITY;

HAZARDS;

EID: 70350421253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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