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SUBMITTER: Bandyopadhyay D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2796302 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Statistics in medicine 20091201 28
Dental research gives rise to data with potentially complex correlation structure. Assessments of dental caries yield a binary outcome indicating the presence or absence of caries experience for each surface of each tooth in a subject's mouth. In addition to this nesting, caries outcome exhibit spatial structure among neighboring teeth. We develop a Bayesian multivariate model for spatial binary data using random effects autologistic regression that controls for the correlation within tooth surf ...[more]