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A primer on disease mapping and ecological regression using INLA

Schrödle, B; Held, L (2011). A primer on disease mapping and ecological regression using INLA. Computational Statistics, 26(2):241-258.

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Within this paper spatial and spatio-temporal disease mapping models are reviewed and applied to reported Coxiellosis cases among cows in Switzerland, 2005-2008. Furthermore, an ecological regression is conducted using a linear and nonparametric association between the number of stillborn calves and the reported Coxiellosis cases within one Swiss region. As a tool for Bayesian inference integrated nested Laplace approximations (INLA) are used. INLA is a promising alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods which is supposed to provide very accurate results within much less computational time. From a user's point of view INLA can easily be applied using an R package called INLA. Hence, it is shown how spatial and spatio-temporal models can be specied and run using INLA; some of the respective R code is also shown. Additionally, computational aspects ascomputational time, accuracy of the results and usability of the R packageare addressed. As a result it was found that the INLA package is easy to handle for this class of models although INLA is a very complex numerical algorithm. Furthermore, useful tools for model choice can be obtained as a standard output.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI)
Dewey Decimal Classification:610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Statistics and Probability
Social Sciences & Humanities > Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Physical Sciences > Computational Mathematics
Language:English
Date:2011
Deposited On:13 Dec 2010 15:28
Last Modified:04 Nov 2024 02:40
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:0943-4062
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-010-0208-2

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