Modelling spatially correlated data via mixtures: A Bayesian approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 805-826

  Fernández, Carmen ^a   Green, Peter J ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease mapping; Grouped continuous model; Logistic normal model; Poisson mixtures; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036434775     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00362     Document Type: Article

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