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Spatial competing risk models in disease mapping
Author(s) -
Lawson Andrew B.,
Williams Fiona L. R.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0258(20000915/30)19:17/18<2451::aid-sim581>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - weighting , computer science , range (aeronautics) , cluster (spacecraft) , econometrics , spatial epidemiology , statistics , data mining , operations research , mathematics , medicine , epidemiology , materials science , composite material , radiology , programming language
Often it is required that the ‘health status’ of an area must be assessed and this involves the analysis of a range of different diseases within one study window. This often arises, for example, when disease cluster alarms are sounded and there is a need to provide a general overview of health in the vicinity of he cluster area. Our approach leads to the consideration of the joint spatial distribution of a ‘basket’ of diseases. We examine the use of weighting schemes within our general formulation, and extensions to count data and spatio‐temporal modelling. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.