Empirical Bayes estimators and non-parametric mixture models for space and time-space disease mapping and surveillance

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Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-451

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Descriptive measure for spatial heterogeneity; Mixture models for space time data; Simple estimators for heterogeneity variance

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MAPPING; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041627762     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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