An approximate Bayesian method is developed to study the joint mortality rate of two cancer sites over several geographic areas. A conditionally independent two-stage hierarchical model is used to ...

This paper presents new results on the nonhomogeneous bivariate compound Poisson process with a short-term periodic intensity function. The dependence between margins is modeled using the Lévy copula.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The conjecture pronounced at the end of the paper of Srivastava and Srivastava (1970) is proved in this paper. It gives the following ...