Detailed information on the BITE software, instalation, syntax, the data and the output can be found in the Bite manual.
Short description
Features available in BITE at the moment:
- Hierarchical structure of the intensity model
- Estimation of baseline hazard on real line
- Incorporation of covariates either in multiplicative or additive form
- Frailty component
- Estimation of various posterior expectations
Input data as separate text files
- response (point process) data containing individual’s entry and exit time as well as type of response (event, censoring)
- covariates of three types: start points such as birth times, scalars such as gender, time-dependent covariates
Core elements of model specification
- Separate file with the model description using BITE syntax
- Simulation limits and data files to load
- Specification of prior, initializing model functions
- Saving Monte Carlo chain
- Intensity model
- Graphical output