A Regression Method for Spatial Disease Rates: An Estimating Function Approach
空间疾病发生率的回归方法:估计函数途径
Epidemiologists commonly study the geographical variation of disease rates to generate and refine testable hypotheses regarding etiology. Poisson regression is often used to estimate the parameters that characterize the effects of risk factors on disease. Hierarchical models have been proposed to utilize spatial locations and neighbors as surrogates for unknown or unmeasured risk factors in the analysis of disease rates. Although hierarchical models are useful in modeling…