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Spatial modeling, covariate measurement error and design issues in environmental epidemiology
In this thesis we develop methods to resolve a series of problems motivated by the analysis of administrative data to help explain geographical variation in disease rates. The Conditional auto-regressive (CAR) structure within a hierarchical generalized linear model offers a robust, flexible, and …