Divino, Fabio; Egidi, Viviana; Salvatore, Michele Antonio - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 18, pp. 435-466
In this paper, we present a hierarchical spatial model for the analysis of geographical variation in mortality between the Italian provinces in the year 2001, according to gender, age class, and cause of death. When analysing counts data specific to geographical locations, classical empirical...