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Hi Karen:

Here are some of the references:

Clayton, D.G. and Bernardinelli, L. (1992). Bayesian methods for
mapping disease risk. In Geographical and Environmental
Epidemiology:  Methods for Small-Area Studies, P. Elliott, J.
Cuzick, D. English, and R. Stern, eds. London: Oxford University
Press.

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Devine, O.J., Louis, T.A., and Halloran, M.E. (1994).  Empirical
Bayes 
estimators for spatially correlated incidence rates. Environmetrics,
 5, 381--398.

Devine, Owen J., Louis, Thomas A., Halloran, M. Elizabeth (1994).
Empirical Bayes methods for stabilizing incidence rates before
mapping
Epidemiology, VOLUME   = 5, PAGES    = 622-630

Devine, Owen J., Louis, Thomas A. (1994) 
A constrained empirical Bayes estimator for incidence rates in
areas with small populations.
Statistics in Medicine. 13, 1119-1133.

Lance Waller


Karen Johnson wrote:
> 
> A recent message listed a couple articles about estimating disease rates
> using Bayesian methods ( I believe the authors were Devine, Louis, and
> Halloran) - I seem to have misplaced the references. Does anyone have
> these handy?
> 
> Thanks
.