Interpreting Posterior Relative Risk Estimates in Disease-Mapping Studies

There is currently much interest in conducting spatial analyses of health outcomes at the small-area scale. This requires sophisticated statistical techniques, usually involving Bayesian models, to smooth the underlying risk estimates because the data are typically sparse. However, questions have be...

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Main Authors: Richardson, Sylvia, Thomson, Andrew, Best, Nicky, Elliott, Paul
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences 2004
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247195/