A study of the incidence and mortality hazard rate of myocardial infarction in Tromsø

• Main Author: Skjold, Gunnhild
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2019
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410::Statistikk: 412; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Mathematics: 410::Statistics: 412; Integrated nested Laplace approximations; applied statistics; Latent Gaussian models; MAT-3907; Laplace; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16090

This thesis uses data from the Tromsø Study and weather data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute to study the mortality hazard rate and incidence rate of myocardial infarction (MI) in Tromsø using a latent Gaussian modelling framework. Inference is performed using integrated nested Laplace a...