A hierarchical model for spatially clustered disease rates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3213-3228

  Gangnon, Ronald E ^a   Clayton, Murray K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Clustering; Disease mapping; Leukaemia; Poisson model; Reversible jump MCMC

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEW YORK; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0141617393     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1570     Document Type: Article

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