Modeling Adverse Birth Outcomes via Confirmatory Factor Quantile Regression

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-100

  Burgette, Lane F ^a   Reiter, Jerome P ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Birth weight; Gibbs sampling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COVARIATES; DESIGN MATRIX; FACTOR STRUCTURE; GIBBS SAMPLING; LATENT FACTOR; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGRESSION MODELLING;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMETRY; BIRTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84858866487     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01639.x     Document Type: Article

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