Showing papers by "William G. Hunter published in 1985"
TL;DR: This article uses Bayesian methods for the analysis of survival data and describes posterior distributions for various parameters of clinical interest in the presence of arbitrary right censorship to suggest an approach for checking adequacy.
Abstract: 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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