Spatio-temporal modeling for disease mapping using CAR and B-spline smoothing

Environmetrics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 180-188

  Torabi, Mahmoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; Conditional autoregressive; Geographic epidemiology; Hierarchical models; Random effects; Spline

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTHMA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHILD HEALTH; DATA SET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 84876495778     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2199     Document Type: Article

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