Bayesian latent variable modelling of multivariate spatio-temporal variation in cancer mortality

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-118

  Tzala, Evangelia ^a   Best, Nicky ^b  

^a Biostatistics and Research Unit   (Greece)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING HABIT; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GREECE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; DIET; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 40549142448     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280207081243     Document Type: Article

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