Disease Mapping with Winbugs and Mlwin

By Andrew B. Lawson, William J. Browne, William B. Browne, et al.

Book Overview

Disease mapping involves the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data and has many applications, for example within resource allocation, cluster alarm analysis, and ecological studies. There is a real need amongst public health workers for simpler and more efficient tools for the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data. Bayesian and multilevel methods provide the required efficiency, and with the emergence of software packages - such as WinBUGS and MLwiN - are now easy to implement in practice. Provides an introduction to Bayesian and multilevel modelling in disease mapping. Adopts a practical approach, with many detailed worked examples. Includes introductory material on WinBUGS and MLwiN. Discusses three applications in detail - relative risk estimation, focused clustering, and ecological analysis. Suitable for public health workers and epidemiologists with a sound statistical knowledge. Supported by a Website featuring data sets and WinBUGS and MLwiN programs.

Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN provides a practical introduction to the use of software for disease mapping for researchers, practitioners and graduate students from statistics, public health and epidemiology who analyse disease incidence data.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470856041
• ISBN13: 9780470856048
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"