A new estimation approach for combining epidemiological data from multiple sources

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 109, Issue 505, 2014, Pages 11-23

  Huang, Hui ^a   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Waagepetersen, Rasmus ^c   Holford, Theodore R ^b   Wang, Rong ^b   Risch, Harvey ^b   Mueller, Lloyd ^d   Guan, Yongtao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating equation; Spatial epidemiology; Spatial point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901762335     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.870904     Document Type: Article

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