Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN

Andrew B. Lawson, William J. Brown, Carmen L. Vidal-Rodeiro

278 pages, parution le 08/10/2003

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Résumé

Disease mapping involves the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data and has many applications, for example within resource allocation, cluster alarm analysis, and ecological studies. There is a real need amongst public health workers for simpler and more efficient tools for the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data. Bayesian and multilevel methods provide the required efficiency, and with the emergence of software packages - such as WinBUGS and MLwiN - are now easy to implement in practice.

Provides an introduction to Bayesian and multilevel modelling in disease mapping.
Adopts a practical approach, with many detailed worked examples.
Includes introductory material on WinBUGS and MLwiN.
Discusses three applications in detail - relative risk estimation, focused clustering, and ecological analysis.
Suitable for public health workers and epidemiologists with a sound statistical knowledge.
Supported by a Website featuring data sets and WinBUGS and MLwiN programs.

Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN provides a practical introduction to the use of software for disease mapping for researchers, practitioners and graduate students from statistics, public health and epidemiology who analyse disease incidence data.

Disease mapping basics.
Bayesian hierarchical modelling.
Multilevel modelling.
WinBUGS basics.
MLwiN basics.
Relative risk estimation.
Focused clustering: the analysis of putative health hazards.
Ecological analysis.
Spatially-correlated survival analysis.
Epilogue.
Appendix 1: WinBUGS code for focused clustering models.
Appendix 2: S-Plus function for conversion to GeoBUGS format.

L'auteur - William J. Brown

William J. Brown

is Product Engineer for Concept Five Technologies leading developments of distributed, object-oriented frameworks.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Andrew B. Lawson, William J. Brown, Carmen L. Vidal-Rodeiro
Parution	08/10/2003
Nb. de pages	278
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	550g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780470856048
ISBN13	978-0-470-85604-8