Empirical Bayes Methods for Stabilizing Incidence Rates before Mapping

The epidemiologic utility of mapping and ranking incidence rates is often questioned owing to instability of the observed incidence values in areas with small populations. Spurious fluctuations in the observed rates caused by this instability can mask true spatial and temporal trends in risk. To pro...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 1994-11, Vol.5 (6), p.622-630
Hauptverfasser:	Devine, Owen J., Louis, Thomas A., Halloran, M. Elizabeth
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bayes estimators Bayes Theorem Death Demography Epidemiologic Methods Epidemiology Estimation methods Estimators Histograms Incidence Mortality Population size Review Scientific method
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