Empirical Bayes Procedures for Stabilizing Maps of U.S. Cancer Mortality Rates
稳定美国癌症死亡率地图的经验贝叶斯方法
"The geographic mapping of age-standardized, cause-specific death rates is a powerful tool for identifying possible etiologic factors, because the spatial distribution of mortality risks can be examined for correlations with the spatial distribution of disease-specific risk factors. This article presents a two-stage empirical Bayes procedure for calculating age-standardized cancer death rates, for use in mapping, which are adjusted for the stochasticity of rates in small…