Analysing Italian voluntary abortion data using a Bayesian approach to the time series decomposition

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-123

  Magni, Paolo ^a   Bellazzi, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Dynamical systems; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Structural time series analysis; Time series decomposition; Volutary abortion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; ITALY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERIODICITY; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABORTION, LEGAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; ITALY; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 0346025732     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1478     Document Type: Article

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