Spatial Poisson Regression for Health and Exposure Data Measured at Disparate Resolutions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 1076-1088

  Best, Nicola G ^a   Ickstadt, Katja ^b   Wolpert, Robert L ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bayesian hierarchical models; Continuous random fields; Ecological regression; Environmental epidemiology; Respiratory illness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293860     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474304     Document Type: Article

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