A latent process model for forecasting multiple time series in environmental public health surveillance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 3085-3100

  Morrison, Kathryn T ^a   Shaddick, Gavin ^b   Henderson, Sarah B ^c,d   Buckeridge, David L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

air pollution; Bayesian hierarchical models; INLA; latent processes; time series

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978997719     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6904     Document Type: Article

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