Lawson, Andrew

Bayesian disease mapping : hierarchical modeling in spatial epidemiology / by Andrew B. Lawson - Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009. - xvii, 344 p. : ill., maps ; - Chapman & Hall/CRC interdisciplinary statistics series .

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-338) and index.

Bayesian inference and modeling -- Computational issues -- Residuals and goodness-of-fit -- Disease map reconstruction and relative risk estimation -- Disease cluster detection -- Ecological analysis -- Multiple scale analysis -- Multivariate disease analysis -- Spatial survival and longitudinal analysis -- Spatiotemporal disease mapping.

9781584888406 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Medical mapping.
Epidemiology
Bayesian statistical decision theory.
Epidemiologic Methods.
Bayes Theorem.
Statistics as Topic.
Topography, Medical

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