Objective Bayesian Survival Analysis Using Shape Mixtures of Log-Normal Distributions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 510, 2015, Pages 697-710

  Vallejos, Catalina A ^a   Steel, Mark F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jeffreys prior; Outlier detection; Posterior existence; Set observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936743927     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.923316     Document Type: Article

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