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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas - 7th International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2000
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
Mumbai, Maharastra, India

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Sanjeev V. Sabnis (IIT, Bombay)

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A Bayesian survival analysis using a MARS model
by
Bani K. Mallick
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

A Bayesian multivariate adaptive regression spline fitting approach is used to model univariate and multivariate survival data with censoring. The possible model contain the proportional hazards model as a subclass and automatically detects departure from this. A reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is described to obtain the estimate of the hazard function as well as the survival curve.

Date received: October 30, 2000

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