Applications of additive semivarying coefficient models: Monthly suicide data from Hong Kong

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 708-713

  Huggins, Richard M ^a   Hall, Peter ^a   Yip, Paul S F ^b   Bui, Quang M ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local polynomial model; Longitudinal data; Semivarying coefficients; Suicide

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COEFFICIENT MODELS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; HONG-KONG; LOCAL POLYNOMIAL MODEL; LOCAL POLYNOMIALS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS; POLYNOMIAL MODELS; SEMIVARYING COEFFICIENT; SUICIDE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH POLICY; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUICIDE;

ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PARAMETRIC TEST; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 34548401261     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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