Bayesian regression in SAS software

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 308-317

  Sullivan, Sheena G ^a,b   Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR REFERENCE AND RESEARCH ON INFLUENZA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Data augmentation; Logistic models; Markov chain monte carlo (MCMC)

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ABORTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEATH; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; IMMUNIZATION; LABOR; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84875595678     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys213     Document Type: Article

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