A two-component Weibull mixture to model early and late mortality in a Bayesian framework

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 416-428

  Farcomeni, Alessio ^a   Nardi, Alessandra ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; COVARIATES; EXOGENOUS FACTORS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; INTERVAL ESTIMATE; INVASIVE TREATMENT; LATENT CLASS; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALE PARAMETER; SCHWARZ CRITERION; TESTING HYPOTHESIS; TWO-COMPONENT; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS; WEIBULL MIXTURE; WEIBULL SCALE PARAMETERS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MIXTURES; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70350565476     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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