A hybrid model for reducing ecological bias

Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Salway, Ruth ^a   Wakefield, Jon ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate data; Dirichlet process prior; Ecological fallacy; Pure specification bias; Within area variability

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINNESOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADON;

EID: 37249050927     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm022     Document Type: Article

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