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SUBMITTER: Latouche A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2241594 | biostudies-literature | 2007
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Latouche Aurélien A Guihenneuc-Jouyaux Chantal C Girard Claire C Hémon Denis D
International journal of health geographics 20070920
<h4>Background</h4>In the context of ecological studies, the Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model is of prime interest when studying the association between environmental exposure and rare diseases. However, adding spatially structured extra-variability in the model fitted to the data when such extra-variability does not exist conditionally on the covariates included in the model (over-fitting) may bias the estimation of the ecological association between covariates and relative risks toward the ...[more]