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Type | Journal Article - Union for African Population Studies |
Title | Using WinBUGS to study family frailty in child mortality, with an application to child survival in Ivory Coast |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 1 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2005 |
Page numbers | 0-0 |
URL | https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/5838 |
Abstract | This article analyzes the effects of unobserved family heterogeneity in children survival times through a Bayesian approach. We rely on survey data from Ivory Coast and use a proportional hazard model with multiplicative random effect. With such a model, the usual assumption of independence of observations is avoided. The posterior distributions of the parameters are estimated through a Gibbs sampler algorithm using the WinBUGS software. This technique overcomes the possible local convergence problem observed with the commonly used Expectation-Maximization method. |
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Koissi, Marie-Claire, and Goran Hognas. "Using WinBUGS to study family frailty in child mortality, with an application to child survival in Ivory Coast." Union for African Population Studies 20, no. 1 (2005): 0-0.