Multilevel spatio-temporal dual changepoint models for relating alcohol outlet destruction and changes in neighbourhood rates of assaultive violence

Geospatial Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-172

  Yu, Qingzhao ^a   Scribner, Richard ^a   Carlin, Brad ^b   Theall, Katherine ^a   Simonsen, Neal ^a   Ghosh Dastidar, Bonnie ^c   Cohen, Deborah ^c   Mason, Karen ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assault Trend; Conditionally Autoregressive (CAR) Model; Gibbs sampler; Natural Experiment; Neighbourhood

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTWARE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 54449090707     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2008.240     Document Type: Article

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