A shared component model for detecting joint and selective clustering of two diseases

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-85

  Knorr Held, Leonhard ^a,b   Best, Nicola G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster models; Joint disease mapping; Latent variables; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Shared component model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649641     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00187     Document Type: Article

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