The Cox proportional hazards (PH) model with time-dependent covariates (referred to as the extended PH model) has been widely used in medical and health related studies to investigate the effects of time-varying risk factors on survival. Theories and practices regarding model estimation and...

Polya tree priors are random probability distributions that are easily centered at standard parametric families, such as the normal. As such, they provide a convenient avenue toward creating a parametric/nonparametric test statistic “blend” for the classic problem of testing whether data...