Intrinsically autoregressive spatiotemporal models with application to aggregated birth outcomes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 638-649

  Norton, Jonathan D ^a   Niu, Xu Feng ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive; Deviance Information Criterion; Disease mapping; Hierarchical model; Identifiability; Intrinsically autoregressive

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549091331     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0030     Document Type: Article

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