Bayesian disease mapping. Hierarchical modeling in spatial epidemiology - Andrew B. Lawson

Andrew B. Lawson

ISBN 10: 1584888407 / ISBN 13: 9781584888406

Published by 2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bayesian disease mapping. Hierarchical modeling in spatial epidemiology - Andrew B. Lawson
• Publisher: 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584888407
• ISBN 13: 9781584888406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used: Good
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Synopsis

Focusing on data commonly found in public health databases and clinical settings, Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology provides an overview of the main areas of Bayesian hierarchical modeling and its application to the geographical analysis of disease.

The book explores a range of topics in Bayesian inference and modeling, including Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Gibbs sampling, the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, goodness-of-fit measures, and residual diagnostics. It also focuses on special topics, such as cluster detection; space-time modeling; and multivariate, survival, and longitudinal analyses. The author explains how to apply these methods to disease mapping using numerous real-world data sets pertaining to cancer, asthma, epilepsy, foot and mouth disease, influenza, and other diseases. In the appendices, he shows how R and WinBUGS can be useful tools in data manipulation and simulation.

Applying Bayesian methods to the modeling of georeferenced health data, Bayesian Disease Mapping proves that the application of these approaches to biostatistical problems can yield important insights into data.

About the Author

University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA University of Kent, UK University of Copenhagen, Denmark Utrecht University, The Netherlands University of California, Berkeley, USA