Book Chapter

Seasonal variation in death counts: P-spline smoothing in the presence of overdispersion

In: Biggeri, A., Dreassi, E., Marchi, M. (Eds.): Statistical modelling: proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Florence (Italy), 4-8 July, 2004 , 405–409
Florence, Firenze University Press (2004)
Keywords: USA, death records, mortality trends, seasonal fluctuations, smoothing
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