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Bayesian hierarchical models for mapping lung cancer mortality in Ontario

2000· dissertation· en· 0 citations· W3144783246 on OpenAlex

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About CanadaIts subject is Canada, wherever its authors sit.

No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame — the usual design — would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

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stratum: about_only · design weight: 3321.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: low

Dissertation on Bayesian disease mapping of Ontario lung cancer mortality; abstract is missing, and the title reads as applied epidemiology rather than research-on-research.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: low

The title concerns mapping lung cancer mortality with Bayesian models, while the abstract is insufficient to add detail.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

Uses Bayesian hierarchical models to map lung-cancer mortality; method-as-tool for epidemiology, not study of the method.

Abstract

grantor: University of Toronto

Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.

The record

Venue
TSpace
Topic
Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Field
Arts and Humanities
Canadian institutions
Funders
Keywords
Lung cancerBayesian probabilityStatisticsMedicineComputer scienceOncologyMathematics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes