Bayesian wombling for spatial point processes

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1243-1253

  Liang, Shengde ^a   Banerjee, Sudipto ^a   Carlin, Bradley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Cancer; Spatial point process; Wombling

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYESIAN; BOUNDARY ANALYSIS; CANCER; GEOSTATISTICAL; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; OBSERVED VALUES; POINT PROCESS; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; SPATIAL VARIABLES; WOMBLING;

DISEASES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANCER; DATA SET; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOM SAMPLE; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70450242679     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01203.x     Document Type: Article

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