Bayesian quantile regression for count data with application to environmental epidemiology

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 905-920

  Lee, Duncan ^a   Neocleous, Tereza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bayesian methods; Health effects; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958549649     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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