All maps of parameter estimates are misleading

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3221-3234

  Gelman, Andrew ^a   Price, Phlllip N ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STATISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033573278     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3221::AID-SIM312>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Conference Paper

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