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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">130407</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201510_13(4).0007</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Bivariate Lifetime Geometric Distribution in Presence of Cure Fractions</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Davarzani</surname>
            <given-names>Nasser</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht, the Netherlands.</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Achcar</surname>
            <given-names>Jorge Alberto</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Departamento de Medicina Social, FMRP, Universidade de Sao Paulo,
Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil.</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Smirnov</surname>
            <given-names>Evgueni Nikolaevich</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Department of Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht, the Netherlands.</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Peeters</surname>
            <given-names>Ralf</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_003">Department of Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht, the Netherlands.</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>755</fpage>
      <lpage>770</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian analysis for bivariate geometric distributions applied to lifetime data in the presence of covariates, censored data and cure fraction using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We show that the use of a discrete bivariate geometric distribution could bring us some computational advantages when compared to standard existing bivariate exponential lifetime distributions introduced in the literature assuming continuous lifetime data as for example, the exponential Block and Basu bivariate distribution. Posterior summaries of interest are obtained using the popular OpenBUGS software. A numerical illustration is introduced considering a medical data set related to the analysis of a diabetic retinopathy data set.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Bivariate geometric distribution</kwd>
        <kwd>Censored data</kwd>
        <kwd>Cure function</kwd>
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