Mixtures of Polya trees offer a very flexible nonparametric approach for modelling time-to-event data. Many such settings also feature spatial association that requires further sophistication, either at the point level or at the lattice level. In this paper, we combine these two aspects within...

The evaluation of the performance of a continuous diagnostic measure is a commonly encountered task in medical research. We develop Bayesian non-parametric models that use Dirichlet process mixtures and mixtures of Polya trees for the analysis of continuous serologic data. The modelling approach...

Polya tree priors are random probability distributions that are easily centered at standard parametric families, such as the normal. As such, they provide a convenient avenue toward creating a parametric/nonparametric test statistic “blend” for the classic problem of testing whether data...

A new regression model for recurrent events from repairable systems is proposed. The effectiveness of each repair in Kijima models I and II is regressed on repair-specific covariates. By modeling effective age in a flexible way, the model allows a spectrum of heterogeneous repairs besides...