Nonparametric Bayesian survival analysis using mixtures of Weibull distributions

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2004.08.009zbMath1079.62095MaRDI QIDQ2581640

Athanasios Kottas

Publication date: 10 January 2006

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2004.08.009

zbMATH Keywords

Survival function; Dirichlet process mixture models; Hazard function; Leukemia; Censored observations; Liver metastases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

62F15: Bayesian inference

62N02: Estimation in survival analysis and censored data

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Uses Software

• wavethresh
• BGPhazard

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