Using R for Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-temporal Health Modeling
Language: English
Published by Chapman & Hall, 2021
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- Title
- Using R for Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-temporal Health Modeling
- Author
- Lawson, Andrew B.
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0367490129
- ISBN 13
- 9780367490126
- Item weight
- 0.72 kilograms
- Series
- Book 61 of 73: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R
Progressively more and more attention has been paid to how location affects health outcomes. The area of disease mapping focusses on these problems, and the Bayesian paradigm has a major role to play in the understanding of the complex interplay of context and individual predisposition in such studies of disease. Using R for Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Health Modeling provides a major resource for those interested in applying Bayesian methodology in small area health data studies.
Features:
- Review of R graphics relevant to spatial health data
- Overview of Bayesian methods and Bayesian hierarchical modeling as applied to spatial data
- Bayesian Computation and goodness-of-fit
- Review of basic Bayesian disease mapping models
- Spatio-temporal modeling with MCMC and INLA
- Special topics include multivariate models, survival analysis, missing data, measurement error, variable selection, individual event modeling, and infectious disease modeling
- Software for fitting models based on BRugs, Nimble, CARBayes and INLA
- Provides code relevant to fitting all examples throughout the book at a supplementary website
The book fills a void in the literature and available software, providing a crucial link for students and professionals alike to engage in the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal health data from a Bayesian perspective using R. The book emphasizes the use of MCMC via Nimble, BRugs, and CARBAyes, but also includes INLA for comparative purposes. In addition, a wide range of packages useful in the analysis of geo-referenced spatial data are employed and code is provided. It will likely become a key reference for researchers and students from biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, and environmental science.
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About the Author
Dr Lawson is Professor of Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, MUSC and is an MUSC Distinguished Professor Emeritus and ASA Fellow. His PhD was in Spatial Statistics from the University of St. Andrews, UK.
He has over 190 journal papers on the subject of spatial epidemiology, spatial statistics and related areas. In addition to a number of book chapters, he is the author of 10 books in areas related to spatial epidemiology and health surveillance. The most recent of these is Lawson, A.B. et al (eds) (2016) Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology. CRC Press, New York, and in 2018 a 3rd edition of Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology CRC Press. He has acted as an advisor in disease mapping and risk assessment for the World Health Organization (WHO) and is the founding editor of the Elsevier journal Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. Dr Lawson has delivered many short courses in different locations over the last 20 years on Bayesian Disease Mapping with OpenBUGS, INLA, and Nimble, and more general spatial epidemiology topics.
Web site: http://people.musc.edu/~abl6/
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