Figure 1From: Exploratory disease mapping: kriging the spatial risk function from regional count dataComparison of raw and Bayesian smoothed SIDS mortality rates. Parallel box plots for the raw annual SIDS mortality rate per 1000 live births (r) and the corresponding shrinkage estimates or empirical Bayesian estimated rates (eber) from 100 counties of North Carolina, 1974–1984.Back to article page