title: Inference on a collapsed margin in disease mapping.
abstract: This paper describes a method for estimating the risk from a disease over a set of contiguous geographical regions, when data on a potentially important covariate, such as race, are not available. Conditions under which the extra margin can be recovered are suggested. An application to prostate cancer mortality among the non-white population in the counties of the U.S.A. is discussed.
authors.affiliation: AT&T Labs Research, 180 Park Ave, Florham Park, NJ 07940, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Byers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Besag
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology