Spatiotemporal trends in teen birth rates in the USA, 2003–2012

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

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 35-58

  Khan, Diba ^a   Rossen, Lauren M ^a   Hamilton, Brady ^a   Dienes, Erin ^b   He, Yulei ^a   Wei, Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Convolution; Hierarchical Bayes method; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Small area estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017102370     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12266     Document Type: Article

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