„... written at a level that will be readily accessible toanyone with a modest background in applied statistics.“(Technometrics, February 2005)
„The book certainly is a nice addition to my disease mappingbooks. The book is equally useful for the undergraduate andgraduate students as well as public health professionals.(E-STREAMS, July 2004)
“... a good guide and a useful addition for anygraduate statistician or epidemiologist...„(Statistical Methods in Medical Research, No.13 2004)
“... outlines the models used in statistical disease mapping, andgives details of how the models can be implemented using twopackages...„ (Short Book Reviews, Vol.24, No.3)
“Readers... will greatly profit from this book"(International Society of Clinical Biostatistics Dec2005)
Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN
von Andrew B. Lawson, William J. Browne und Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro* Provides an introduction to Bayesian and multilevel modellingin disease mapping.
* Adopts a practical approach, with many detailed workedexamples.
* Includes introductory material on WinBUGS and MLwiN.
* Discusses three applications in detail - relative riskestimation, focused clustering, and ecological analysis.
* Suitable for public health workers and epidemiologists with asound statistical knowledge.
* Supported by a Website featuring data sets and WinBUGS andMLwiN programs.
Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN provides apractical introduction to the use of software for disease mappingfor researchers, practitioners and graduate students fromstatistics, public health and epidemiology who analyse diseaseincidence data.
