Small area estimation of sparse disease counts using shared component models-application to birth defect registry data in New South Wales, Australia

Health and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 684-693

  Earnest, Arul ^a   Beard, John R ^a,c   Morgan, Geoff ^a,b   Lincoln, Douglas ^a   Summerhayes, Richard ^c   Donoghue, Deborah ^a   Dunn, Therese ^a,b   Muscatello, David ^d   Mengersen, Kerrie ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b North Coast Area Health Service New South Wales Government Department of Health   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CAR; Defects; Sparse; Spatial

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHILDBEARING; DATA SET; DISEASE; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH DEFECT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SPINA BIFIDA; TRISOMY 21;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77952584118     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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