Modelling seasonally varying data: A case study for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 535-547

  Mooney, Jennifer A ^a   Jolliffe, Ian T ^a,b   Helms, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardioid distribution; Circular data; Cosinor analysis; Regression; Seasonality; SIDS; Von mises distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646530047     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2664760600585642     Document Type: Article

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