BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF WEIBULL AND LOGNORMAL
SURVIVAL MODELS WITH CENSORING MECHANISM
Yasmin Khan$^1$, A.A Khan$^2$
Department of Statistics and O.R.
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, 202002, Uttar Pratesh, INDIA
Abstract. The survival analysis is a powerful statistical methodology widely used in the medical research. In this paper, intercept as well as regression analyses are carried out for real survival data problems with censoring mechanisms only. The Bayesian approach is implemented with R and appropriate illustrations are also made.
AMS Subject classification: 62xx, 62F15, 62F40
Keywords and phrases: Bayesian inference, censoring, package LaplacesDemon, function LaplaceApproximation, sampling importance, resampling, model comparison


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DOI: 10.12732/ijam.v26i6.3

Volume: 26
Issue: 6
Year: 2013