Spatial variation in risk of disease: A nonparametric binary regression approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-573

  Kelsall, Julia E ^a   Diggle, Peter J ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Binary regression; Cross validation; Epidemiology; Generalized additive models; Kernel smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039986416     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00128     Document Type: Article

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