The misuse of count data aggregated over time for disease mapping

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4489-4504

  Ocaña Riola, Ricardo ^a  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Disease mapping; Generalized linear mixed models; Mortality; Small area analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; STANDARDIZATION;

BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35148861435     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2861     Document Type: Article

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