Finite mixture models for mapping spatially dependent disease counts

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-97

  Alfó, Marco ^a   Nieddu, Luciano ^b   Vicari, Donatella ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Campus Bio Medico   (Italy)

Author keywords

Field Approximation; Finite Mixtures; Gibbs distribution; Multivariate Counts

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS; FIELD APPROXIMATIONS; FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; FINITE MIXTURES; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; GIBBS DISTRIBUTION; MODELING APPROACH; MULTIVARIATE COUNT; RANDOM EFFECTS; UNIVARIATE;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 60849108333     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200810494     Document Type: Article

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