Bayesian multivariate disease mapping and ecological regression with errors in covariates: Bayesian estimation of DALYs and 'preventable' DALYs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1369-1385

  MacNab, Ying C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Preventable' DALYs; Bayesian multivariate disease mapping; Burden of injury; Disability adjusted life years (DALYs); Ecological models; Error in covariate

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE NEED; INJURY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; BIOMETRY; DISABILITY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67549143085     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3547     Document Type: Article

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