On Bayesian shared component disease mapping and ecological regression with errors in covariates

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1239-1249

  MacNab, Ying C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian disease mapping; Confounding; Ecological models; Error in covariate; Identifiability; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Multivariate CAR models; Shared component models; Unmeasured confounding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951610337     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3875     Document Type: Article

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