TY - JOUR AU - Hakizamungu, Joseph AU - Rolin, Jean-Marie PY - 2003/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Bayesian nonparametric duration model with censorship JF - Statistica JA - Stat VL - 63 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.6092/issn.1973-2201/351 UR - https://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/351 SP - 237-248 AB - This paper is concerned with nonparametric i.i.d. durations models censored observations and we establish by a simple and unified approach the general structure of a bayesian nonparametric estimator for a survival function S. For Dirichlet prior distributions, we describe completely the structure of the posterior distribution of the survival function. These results are essentially supported by prior and posterior independence properties. ER -