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This second edition of Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology is updated and expanded to offer a complete coverage of the analysis and application of spatial statistical methods.
The book explores a range of topics in Bayesian inference and
The target audience for this text is public health specialists, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians who need to work with geo-referenced health data.
Master students in biostatistics, applied statisticians and all researchers with a good background in classical statistics who have interest in Bayesian methods will find this book useful.
Lawson, A.B., Biggeri, A. and Dreassi, E. (1999) Edge effects in disease mapping. ... Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Lawson, A.B., Browne, W.J. and Vidal-Rodeiro, C.L. (2003) Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN.
Bayesian detection of clusters and discontinuities in disease maps. Biometrics 56, 13–21. ... Modelling disease incidence data with spatial and spatio-temporal Dirichlet process mixtures. ... Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN.
Lawson A 2009Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology. Chapmand and Hall/CRC, New York. ... Lawson A, Browne W and Vidal Rodeiro C 2003 Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN, v2.10.
Since the publication of the second edition, many new Bayesian tools and methods have been developed for space-time data analysis, the predictive modeling of health outcomes, and other spatial biostatistical areas.
The target audience for this text is public health specialists, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians who need to work with geo-referenced health data.