Analysis of Melanoma Onset: Assessing Familial Aggregation by Using Estimating Equations and Fitting Variance Components via Bayesian Random Effects Models

Twin Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-113

  Do, Kim Anh ^a   Aitken, Joanne F ^b   Green, Adèle C ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Queensland Cancer Fund Research Unit   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CURVE FITTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATING EQUATION; FAMILIAL CANCER; FITTING VARIANCE COMPONENT; GIBBS SAMPLING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEVUS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE; WEIBULL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1542514794     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/13690520460741480     Document Type: Article

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