Does mortality vary between Asian subgroups in New Zealand: an application of hierarchical Bayesian modelling.

The aim of this paper was to see whether all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates vary between Asian ethnic subgroups, and whether overseas born Asian subgroup mortality rate ratios varied by nativity and duration of residence. We used hierarchical Bayesian methods to allow for sparse data in th...

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Main Authors: Santosh Jatrana, Ken Richardson, Tony Blakely, Saira Dayal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4139320?pdf=render