Frailty Factors and Time-dependent Hazards in Modelling Ear Infections in Children Using BASSIST
Mervi Eerola, Heikki Mannila, Marko Salmenkivi · COMPSTAT · 1998
The BASSIST system is a general purpose tool for MCMC sampling for intensity models. The system allows the user to specify an intensity model in a high-level language. The model is used to generate a simulation program that uses the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to obtain the desired samples. In contrast to BUGS (Spiegelhalter et al. , 1996), BASSIST contains several primitives that are suited for modelling event data, including piecewise constant functions etc.