Disease mapping with errors in covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 741-752

  Bernardinelli, L ^a   Pascutto, C ^a   Best, N G ^b,c   Gilks, W R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COVARIANCE; DISEASE MODEL; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ITALY; MALARIA;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALARIA; MAPS; MARKOV CHAINS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0030896283     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970415)16:7<741::AID-SIM501>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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