A spatial structural equation model with an application to area health needs

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-412

  Congdon, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Health need; MIMIC; Spatial correlation; Structural equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951170956     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802676300     Document Type: Article

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