Estimating trends and seasonality in coronary heart disease

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 3505-3523

  Barnett, Adrian G ^a   Dobson, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Seasonality; State space model; Time series; Trend; WHO MONICA Project

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 7944225679     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1927     Document Type: Article

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