A multivariate CAR model for improving the estimation of relative risks

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1707-1724

  Greco, Fedele P ^a   Trivisano, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Areal data; Disease mapping; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Multivariate conditional auto regressive (CAR) models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CALCULATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 69949111729     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3577     Document Type: Article

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