This paper analyses a data file of heart transplant surgeries performed in the United States over a two-year period. A Poisson/gamma exchangeable model is used to learn about the underlying death rates for 94 hospitals. There are concerns about the suitability of this hierarchical model, including t
Bayes factors and hierarchical models
β Scribed by Fulvio De Santis; Fulvio Spezzaferri
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-3758
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β¦ Synopsis
Consider m sets of data x h , each with distribution depending on an unknown parameter
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