An evaluation of the edge effects in disease map modelling

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• 作者：Vidal Rodeiro ; Carmen L. ; Lawson ; Andrew B.
• 关键词：Bayesian models ; Data augmentation ; Disease mapping ; Edge effects ; McMC ; Missing data
• 刊名：Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
• 出版年：2005
• 期刊代码：19_01679473
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：April 15, 2005
• 卷：49
• 期：1
• 页码：45-62
• 文件大小：544 K

摘要

The construction and smoothing of disease maps has been the object of many methodological developments in recent years, but the analysis of edge effects has been a neglected area in spatial epidemiology. This is regrettable since many analyses can be fundamentally altered by the inclusion of edge information in different forms.