Integrating informative priors from experimental research with bayesian methods: An example from radiation epidemiology

Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-95

  Hamra, Ghassan ^a   Richardson, David ^a   MacLehose, Richard ^b   Wing, Steve ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATIVE PRIOR; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TOXICOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; BETA PARTICLES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY; TRITIUM;

EID: 84871817188     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31827623ea     Document Type: Article

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