Multi-level modelling of geographically aggregated health data: A case study on malignant melanoma mortality and UV exposure in the European community

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-57

  Langford, Ian H ^a   Bentham, Graham ^a   McDonald, Anné Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER MORTALITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CLIMATE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0032518740     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980115)17:1<41::AID-SIM712>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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