Evaluating the performance of spatio-temporal Bayesian models in disease mapping

Environmetrics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 647-665

  Ugarte, M D ^b   Goicoa, T ^b   Ibanez B ^a   Militino, A F ^b  

^a Fundación Vasca de Innovación e Investigación Sanitarias   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian decision rules; Bias and mse of the posterior mean relative risk; Hierarchical bayesian models; Model sensitivity and model specificity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NAVARRA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70349907767     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.969     Document Type: Article

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