Spatial modelling of lupus incidence over 40 years with changes in census areas

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

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-115

  Li, Ye ^a   Brown, Patrick ^a   Rue, Håvard ^b   Al Maini, Mustafa ^c   Fortin, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c MAFRAQ HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Changing boundaries; Disease mapping; Integrated nested Laplace approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855992393     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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