%0 Journal Article
%T Joint Modeling of Disease Pairs
%A Gergely T¨®TH
%A S¨¢ndor KABOS
%A Gy£¿rgy SURJ¨¢N
%J Applied Medical Informatics
%D 2012
%I SRIMA Publishing House
%X Aim: Exploring the spatial patterns in joint distribution of incidences of two diseases. Material and method: A Poisson-Binomial regression model was used in analysing hospitalisation counts data in Hungary, 2008. Model parameters were estimated by MCMC implemented in WinBUGS. Results: Spatial patterns of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer differ significantly from that of their ratio. Conclusion: The Poisson-Binomial model proposed here might help clarify us the different spatial dependencies of the sum and the ratio of incidences of two diseases.
%K Epidemiologic Studies
%K Regression Analysis
%K Poisson Distribution
%K Binomial Distribution
%U http://ami.info.umfcluj.ro/index.php/AMI/article/view/364