Analysing child mortality in Nigeria with geoadditive discrete-time survival models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 709-728

  Adebayo, Samson B ^a,b   Fahrmeir, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Demographic and health surveys; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Non parametric Bayesian inference; Spatial survival model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NIGERIA; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL TIME; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NIGERIA; RURAL POPULATION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 14544300510     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1842     Document Type: Article

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