On estimation and influence diagnostics for log-Birnbaum-Saunders Student-t regression models: Full Bayesian analysis

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2486-2496

  Cancho, Vicente G ^a   Ortega, Edwin M M ^a   Paula, Gilberto A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian diagnostic measure; Bayesian inference; Generalized Birnbaum Saunders distribution; Influential observation; Kullback Leibler divergence; Sinh normal distribution; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952545236     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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