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Current Trends in Bayesian Methodology with Applications
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Current Trends in Bayesian Methodology with Applications

by Satyanshu K. Upadhyay, Umesh Singh, Dipak K. Dey, Appaia Loganathan
May 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
680 pages
22h 33m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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methods identified a statistically significant acceleration of the disease pr o-
cess over time [14]. However, if we are additionally interested in allowing for
subject-specific va riation in the rate of acceleration of the process, maximum
likelihood methods become intractable. Subject-specific variation in the rate
of progression of the disease is of interest in this c ontext because subjects
included in the study are extremely heterogeneous. Variation exists in demo-
graphics, treatments, and cancer-types in these patients. Unmeasured factors
and intrinsic variations in disease susceptibility and recover y may influence
the course of delirium in individual patients. We can account for varia ...
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