Geographically weighted Poisson regression for disease association mapping

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 2695-2717

  Nakaya, Tomoki ^a   Fotheringham, A S ^b   Brunsdon, C ^c   Charlton, M ^b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; Kernel mapping; Poisson regression; Spatial analysis; Tokyo

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED POISSON REGRESSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN AREA; WORKER;

ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; TOKYO;

EID: 24944468295     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2129     Document Type: Article

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