How does Poisson kriging compare to the popular BYM model for mapping disease risks?

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a   Gebreab, Samson ^b  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41749094962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-6     Document Type: Article

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