Bayesian Testing of Relative Mortality, with Application to Occupational Cohort Studies
作者:
Paolo Giudici,
Paolo Crosignani,
期刊:
Biometrical Journal
(WILEY Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 39,
issue 1
页码: 39-46
ISSN:0323-3847
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1002/bimj.4710390105
出版商: WILEY‐VCH Verlag
关键词: Bayes factors;Occupational epidemiology;Small studies;Subject‐years method
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAn important issue in epidemiology, often exploratory, is to compare the mortality of a certain cohort, exposed to some dangerous conditions, to that of a reference population. The main statistical tool to study relative mortality has long been the subject‐years method.We propose a Bayesian version of the subject‐years method, particularly suited to analyse the mortality of small cohorts. In particular, we employ the Bayes factor in order to test whether the mortality of a cohort exceeds that of a reference population. The methodology is applied to an occupational epidemiology study. The results are compared to those obtained from the classical one‐sided tests on the same
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