Bayesian estimates of disease maps: How important are priors?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 21-22, 1995, Pages 2411-2431

  Bernardinelli, L ^a   Clayton, D ^b   Montomoli, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN-DEPENDENT; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK;

EID: 0028835190     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780142111     Document Type: Article

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