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Appendix to Chapter 7
Pages 333-336

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... from each study. Second, the approach easily extends to the case of multiple outcomes, because outcome within a study simply represents an additional level in the hierarchical model.
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... Applying aninverse transformation again converts those results to yield estimates of the distribution of the quantities of interest, namely, BMDs. In addition to providing an estimate of distribution of true BMDs corresponding to different outcomes from different studies, the output from the program allows computation of so-called posterior estimates of the true BMDs, given the observed values.
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... In Press. Combining evidence on air pollutoin and daily mortality from the largest 20 US cities: A hierarchical modeling strategy.
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Key Terms

  • bayesian inference
  • normally distributed
  • corresponding standard
  • true bmds
  • theoretical justification

  • estimated bmds
  • standard errors
  • posterior estimates
  • using gibbs
  • gibbs sampling

  • hierarchical model
  • inference using
  • random variables
  • allows computation
  • growth curve

  • various confounding
  • daily mortality
  • air pollutoin
  • primary approach
  • simply represents

  • linear growth
  • method proposed
  • mean value
  • empirically checking
  • simulated distributions

  • sas proc
  • particular application
  • confounding factors
  • involved fitting
  • study simply


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