[gompertz_ex0] Gompertz Model

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   model
   {
      for( i in 1 : N )
      {
      x[i] ~ dgpz(alpha, theta)      
      }      
   # Prior distributions of the model parameters         
   # Gamma Prior      
         alpha ~ dgamma(0.001, 0.001)
         theta~ dgamma(0.001, 0.001)               
   }
   
The data set is taken from Murthy et al. (2004, pp. 119 ).

Murthy, D. N. P., Xie, M., Jiang, R. (2004). Weibull Models , Wiley-Interscience.

MLE's are alpha = 1.968482 theta = 0.019104

Data ( click to open )


Inits for chain 1        Inits for chain 2     ( click to open )

Results

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