Boundary detection in disease mapping studies

Biostatistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-426

  Lee, Duncan ^a   Mitchell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Conditional autoregressive models; Disease mapping; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84863587190     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr036     Document Type: Article

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