Modeling of the HIV infection epidemic in the Netherlands: A multi-parameter evidence synthesis approach

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2359-2384

  Conti, Stefano ^a   Presanis, Anne M ^a   van Veen, Maaike G ^a   Xiridou, Maria ^a   Donoghoe, Martin C ^a   Stengaard, Annemarie Rinder ^a   De Angelis, Daniela ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Bias adjustment; Evidence synthesis; Hierarchical models; HIV infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870261089     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS488     Document Type: Article

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