Disease mapping and spatial regression with count data

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-183

  Wakefield, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Ecological bias; Ecological correlation studies; Hierarchical models; Prior distributions; Spatial epidemiology; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIP TUMOR; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNLIGHT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIP NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCOTLAND; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 34147190307     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxl008     Document Type: Article

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