On block updating in Markov random field models for disease mapping

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 597-614

  Knorr Held, Leonhard ^a   Rue, Hävard ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Block updating; Disease mapping; Hierarchical models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Markov random field models; Shared component model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036900109     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00308     Document Type: Article

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