Bayesian estimation of relative risk in biomedical research

Environmetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-143

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Albanese, Richard A ^b   Penn, John W ^b   White, Thomas J ^c  

^a Department of Psychology   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^c QuesTech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Air Force Health Study; beta priors; confidence intervals; restricted uniform priors

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RELATIVE RISK;

USA;

EID: 0030609659     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199703)8:2<133::AID-ENV243>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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