[Rolf Nevanlinna Institute | University of Helsinki | Funet]

Tommi T. Härkänen

PhD Thesis

The introduction can be found at the Web.

Manuscripts


Accepted for publication


Publications

  • Härkänen, T., Virtanen, J.I., Arjas, E. (2000): Caries on Permanent Teeth: A Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Vol. 27: 577-588.

    Key words: Multivariate survival analysis, intensity model, frailty model, measurement model, Markov chain Monte Carlo method.

  • Härkänen, T., Larmas, M., Virtanen, J.I., Arjas, E. (2002): Applying modern survival analysis methods to longitudinal dental caries studies. Journal of Dental Research 81(2): 144-148.

    Key words: Dental caries, Bayesian inference, Intensity model, Measurement model, Survival analysis.

  • Härkänen, T. (2003): BITE: A Bayesian Intensity Estimator. Computational Statistics 18:565-583.

    Key words: Intensity model; nonparametric model, frailty model, data augmentation, Markov chain Monte Carlo, software package, event history data analysis, survival analysis.

  • Härkänen, T., Hausen, H., Virtanen, J.I., Arjas, E. (2003): A Nonparametric Frailty Model for Temporally Clustered Multivariate Failure Times. To appear in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 30:523-533.

    Key words: Multivariate survival analysis, intensity model, frailty model, measurement model, multiple imputation, Markov chain Monte Carlo method.


Presentations

A tutorial on Bayesian modeling and analysis of event history data: some ideas and practical experiences (1.1MB). Presented at the IWSM in Odense, Denmark on July 1, 2001. Also in gzip format (327kB) and in PDF format (550kB).

Software

A package for estimating Bayesian intensity models: Bite.

Contact information

Work:

KTL/TTO
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FINLAND

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