Cluster detection using Bayes factors from overparameterized cluster models

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-82

  Gangnon, Ronald ^a   Clayton, Murray K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Cluster detection; Random effects; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo; Spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 33847103751     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-006-0007-7     Document Type: Article

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