Prediction error estimators in Empirical Bayes disease mapping

Environmetrics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-300

  Ugarte, M D ^a   Militino, A F ^a   Goicoa, T ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Double bootstrap; PQL; Relative risks; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; MAPPING METHOD; MODELING; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 42549165613     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.874     Document Type: Article

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