Disease mapping and risk assessment for public health /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Disease mapping and its uses
- Bayesian and empirical Bayes approaches to disease mapping
- Addressing multiple goals evaluating region-specific risk using Bayesian methods
- Disease mapping with hidden structures using mixture models
- Inference for extremes in disease mapping
- Edge effects in disease mapping
- A review of cluster detection methods
- Comparison of general tests for spatial clustering
- Markos chain Monte Carlo methods for putative sources of hazard and general clustering
- Statistical evaluation of disease cluster alarms
- Disease clustering for uncertain locations
- Empirical studies of cluster detection : different cluster test in application to German cancer maps
- Introduction to spatial models in ecological analysis
- Bayesian ecological modelling
- Spatial regression models in epidemiological studies
- Multilevel modelling of area-based health data
- A review of modelling approaches in health risk assessment around putative sources
- Disease mapping using the relative risk function estimated from areal data
- The power of focused score tests under misspecified cluster models
- Case-control analysis of risk around putative sources
- Lung cancer near point emission sources
- Environmental epidemiology, public health advocacy and policy
- The character and the public health implications of ecological analyses
- Computer geographic analysis : a commentary on its use and misuse in public health
- Estimating the presence and the degree of heterogeneity of disease rates
- Ecological regression with errors in covariates : an application
- Case studies in Bayesian disease mapping for health and health service research in Ireland
- An analysis of determinants of regional variation in cancer incidence : Ontario, Canada
- Congenital anomalies near hazardous waste landfill sites in Europe
- An analysis of the geographical distribution of leukaemia incidence in the vicinity of a suspected point source : a case study
- Lung cancer mortality in women in Germany 1995 : a case study in disease mapping