An application of bayesian analysis to medical follow-up data
Posterior distributions can provide effective summaries of the main conclusions of medical follow‐up studies. In this article, we use Bayesian methods for the analysis of survival data. We describe posterior distributions for various parameters of clinical interest in the presence of arbitrary right...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Statistics in medicine 1985-10, Vol.4 (4), p.509-520 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Posterior distributions can provide effective summaries of the main conclusions of medical follow‐up studies. In this article, we use Bayesian methods for the analysis of survival data. We describe posterior distributions for various parameters of clinical interest in the presence of arbitrary right censorship. Non‐informative reference priors result from transformation of a two‐parameter Weibull model into a location‐scale family. We suggest an approach for checking adequacy. For illustration, we apply the methods to a well‐known acute leukemia data set. |
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ISSN: | 0277-6715 1097-0258 |
DOI: | 10.1002/sim.4780040411 |