A comparison of Bayesian hierarchical modeling with group-based exposure assessment in occupational epidemiology

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 3686-3699

  Xing, Li ^a   Burstyn, Igor ^b   Richardson, David B ^c   Gustafson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Group based exposure assessment; MCMC; Measurement error; Missing data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKER;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; GROUP-BASED EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; MCMC; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MISSING DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION;

EID: 84883133711     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5791     Document Type: Article

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