Frailty modeling via the empirical Bayes-Hastings sampler

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2011.09.004zbMath1246.65024OpenAlexW2070613932WikidataQ42176847 ScholiaQ42176847MaRDI QIDQ434878

Pamela Ohman Strickland, Shaban Demirel, Richard A. Levine, Juanjuan Fan

Publication date: 16 July 2012

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2011.09.004

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesGibbs samplerregressionestimatorsmultivariate survival analysisgoodness of fitglaucoma and ophthalmology dataMarkov chain Monte Carlo estimationMetropolis-Hastings samplermodel fitting routinesnonparametric Bayesian frailty modelnonparametric Pólya tree priorocular disease

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40)

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