A model for space-time cluster detection using spatial clusters with flexible temporal risk patterns

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2325-2337

  Gangnon, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Cluster detection; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Poisson; Spatio temporal modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 77956920962     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3984     Document Type: Article

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