Confidence intervals for relative risks in disease mapping

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 410-425

  Ugarte, M D ^a   Militino, A F ^a   Ibanez B ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; EM algorithm; Overdispersion; Poisson mixture models

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; RISK PERCEPTION;

BOOTSTRAP; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISCRETE MIXTURE; EM ALGORITHMS; MIXTURE MODELING; OVERDISPERSION; POISSON MIXTURE MODEL; POISSON MIXTURES; RANDOM EFFECTS; RELATIVE RISKS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0038345631     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200390022     Document Type: Article

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