The epidemic of lung cancer in Tuscany (Italy): A joint analysis of male and female mortality by birth cohort

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-40

  Biggeri, A ^a,b   Catelan, D ^a,b   Dreassi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISPO Cancer Prevention and Research Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bivariate disease mapping; Geographical Epidemiology; Lung cancer; Space cohort hierarchical Bayesian models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 77953267252     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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