Assessing psychiatric morbidity from community registers: Methods for Bayesian adjustment

Urban Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2323-2352

  Congdon, Peter ^a   Smith, Alan ^b   Dean, Christine ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Warley Hosp   (United Kingdom)

^c Brooklands Mental Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032450132     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098983908     Document Type: Article

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