Extensions to Multivariate Space Time Mixture Modeling of Small Area Cancer Data

Rachel Carroll, Andrew B. Lawson, Christel Faes, Russell S. Kirby, Mehreteab Aregay and Kevin Watjou
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Rachel Carroll: Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Andrew B. Lawson: Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Christel Faes: Interuniversity Institute for Statistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium
Russell S. Kirby: Department of Community and Family Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Mehreteab Aregay: Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Kevin Watjou: Interuniversity Institute for Statistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: Oral cavity and pharynx cancer, even when considered together, is a fairly rare disease. Implementation of multivariate modeling with lung and bronchus cancer, as well as melanoma cancer of the skin, could lead to better inference for oral cavity and pharynx cancer. The multivariate structure of these models is accomplished via the use of shared random effects, as well as other multivariate prior distributions. The results in this paper indicate that care should be taken when executing these types of models, and that multivariate mixture models may not always be the ideal option, depending on the data of interest.

Keywords: lung and bronchus cancer; melanoma cancer of the skin; oral cavity and pharynx cancer; incidence; mixture model; spatio-temporal; disease mapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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