Cancho, Vicente; Rodrigues, Josemar; Castro, Mario de - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 38 (2011) 1, pp. 57-70
In this paper we deal with a Bayesian analysis for right-censored survival data suitable for populations with a cure rate. We consider a cure rate model based on the negative binomial distribution, encompassing as a special case the promotion time cure model. Bayesian analysis is based on Markov...