Assessing Psychiatric Morbidity from Community Registers: Methods for Bayesian Adjustment.

This paper considers Bayesian approaches to adjusting small area prevalence estimates derived from a community register of the seriously mentally ill, by taking account of underlying variability in latent prevalence between areas. Adjustment of individual prevalence rates to take account of the enti...

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Published in:	Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 35; no. 12; pp. 2323 - 2352
Main Authors:	Congdon, Peter, Smith, Alan, Dean, Christine
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec98
Subjects:	People with mental illness Bayesian analysis United Kingdom
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost