Identifying Pediatric Cancer Clusters in Florida Using Log-Linear Models and Generalized Lasso Penalties

Statistics and Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-96

  Wang, Hao ^a   Rodríguez, Abel ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Bregman Algorithm; Disease clustering; Fused Lasso; Generalized Lasso; Log linear models; Pediatric cancer; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048743675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2330443X.2014.960120     Document Type: Article

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