Relevance of the type III error in epidemiological maps

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heinzl, Harald ^a   Waldhoer, Thomas ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

BYM model; Crude SMR estimator; Directional test decision; Infant mortality; Standardised mortality ratio (SMR); Statistical power; Structured random effect; Unstructured random effect

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; INFANT MORTALITY; MAPPING; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AUSTRIA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AUSTRIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84865060898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-11-34     Document Type: Article

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