USE OF THE GIBBS SAMPLER TO ESTIMATE TRANSITION RATES BETWEEN GRADES OF CORONARY-DISEASE FOLLOWING CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION

Authors
SHARPLES LD
Citation
Ld. Sharples, USE OF THE GIBBS SAMPLER TO ESTIMATE TRANSITION RATES BETWEEN GRADES OF CORONARY-DISEASE FOLLOWING CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION, Statistics in medicine, 12(12), 1993, pp. 1155-1169
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Medicine, Research & Experimental","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Statistics in medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
02776715
Volume
12
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1155 - 1169
Database
ISI
SICI code
0277-6715(1993)12:12<1155:UOTGST>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Coronary occlusive disease following cardiac transplantation is monito red using serial angiography, and graded on a 3 point scale according to the amount of narrowing observed in major vessels. Disease progress ion is modelled as a continuous time Markov process. The Gibbs sampler is used to estimate the marginal posterior distributions of the trans ition rates between grades of disease and from each grade to death.