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| Author(s): |
Bao Yiqi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC/SB) |
| Defense date: | 2012-05-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Vicente Garibay Cancho;
Heleno Bolfarine;
Francisco Louzada Neto
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| Advisor: | Vicente Garibay Cancho |
| Abstract | |
In this work we propose the Weibull-Negative-Binomial (WNB) considering a latent activation structure to explain the occurrence of an event of interest, where the number of competing causes are modeled by the Negative Binomial distribution and the no observed time due to the causes following the Weibull distribution. In general, the competitive causes may have different activation mechanisms, cases of first, last and random activation were considered in the study. Thus, the proposed model includes a wide distribution such as Weibull-Geometric distribution (WG) and Exponential-Poisson complementary (EPC) introduced by (Barreto-Souza et al., 2011) and (G. et al., 2011) respectively. Based on the same structure, we propose a location-scale regression model based on the proposed distribution (WNB) and the model for survival data with cure fraction. The main objectives of this work is to study the mathematical properties of the proposed models and develop procedures inferences from a classical and Bayesian perspective. Moreover, the Bayesian diagnostic measures based on the \'psi\'-divergence (Peng & Dey, 1995; Weiss, 1996), which includes Kullback-Leibler (K-L) divergence measure as a particular case, were considered to detect influential observations (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/14146-9 - The Weibull-Negative-Binomial Model in the Analysis of Survival Data |
| Grantee: | Bao Yiqi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |