An empirical evaluation of various priors in the empirical Bayes estimation of small area disease risks

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 17-18, 2000, Pages 2409-2420

  Yasui, Yutaka ^a   Liu, Hao ^b   Benach, Joan ^c   Winget, Marcy ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034665661     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0258(20000915/30)19:17/18<2409::aid-sim578>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Conference Paper

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