MIXTURE-MODELS AND DISEASE MAPPING

Authors
SCHLATTMANN P BOHNING D
Citation
P. Schlattmann et D. Bohning, MIXTURE-MODELS AND DISEASE MAPPING, Statistics in medicine, 12(19-20), 1993, pp. 1943-1950
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Medicine, Research & Experimental","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Statistics in medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
02776715
Volume
12
Issue
19-20
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1943 - 1950
Database
ISI
SICI code
0277-6715(1993)12:19-20<1943:MADM>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The analysis and recognition of disease clustering in space and its re presentation on a map is one of the oldest problems in epidemiology. S ome traditional methods of constructing such a map are presented. An a lternative approach using mixture models to identify population hetero geneity and map construction within an empirical Bayes framework is de scribed. For hepatitis B data from Berlin in 1989, a map is presented and the different methods are evaluated using a parametric bootstrap a pproach.