Geostatistical survival models for environmental risk assessment with large retrospective cohorts

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 679-695

  Jiang, Huan ^a,b   Brown, Patrick E ^a,b,c   Rue, Håvard ^d   Shimakura, Silvia ^e  

^a CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Geostatistics; Integrated nested Laplace approximation; Risk assessment; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901287483     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12041     Document Type: Article

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