The analysis of heterogeneous time trends in multivariate age-period-cohort models

Biostatistics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-69

  Riebler, Andrea ^a   Held, Leonhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous time trends; Identifiability; Multivariate age period cohort model; Overdispersion; Relative risk; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PROBABILITY; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT EFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONDON; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WALES;

EID: 72649100865     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp037     Document Type: Article

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