Sensitivity analysis of predictive modeling for responses from the three-parameter Weibull model with a follow-up doubly censored sample of cancer patients

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3093-3103

  Khan, Hafiz M R ^a   Albatineh, Ahmed ^a   Alshahrani, Saeed ^a   Jenkins, Nadine ^b   Ahmed, Nasar U ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Censored sample; Doubly censored sample; Predictive inference; Three parameter Weibull model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CENSORED SAMPLES; DOUBLY CENSORED SAMPLE; PREDICTIVE INFERENCES; THREE-PARAMETER WEIBULL;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

EID: 79961173426     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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