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Using R for Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Health Modeling book cover

1st Edition

Using R for Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Health Modeling

By Andrew B. Lawson Copyright 2021
300 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

300 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

300 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall
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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... Read more

1. Introduction and Data Sets
2. R Graphics and Spatial Health Data
3. Bayesian Hierarchical Models
4. Computation
5. Bayesian model Goodness of Fit Criteria
6. Bayesian Disease Mapping Models

Part I Basic Software Approaches

7. BRugs/OpenBUGS
8. Nimble
9. CARBayes
10. INLA and R-INLA
11. Clustering, Latent Variable and Mixture Modeling
12. Spatio-Temporal Modeling with MCMC
13. Spatio-Temporal Modeling with INLA

Part II Some Advanced and Special topics

14. Multivariate Models
15. Survival Modeling
16. Missingness, Measurement Error and Variable Selection
17. Individual Event Modeling
18. Infectious Disease Modeling

Biography

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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