A Regression Method for Spatial Disease Rates: An Estimating Function Approach

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 437, 1997, Pages 21-32

  Yasui, Yutaka ^a   Lele, Subhash ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional expectations; Descriptive epidemiology; Hierarchical models; Markov random fields; Spatial correlations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031477412     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473599     Document Type: Article

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