Alcohol Abuse Disorder Prevalence and its Distribution Across Portugal
Disease mapping is linked to two other scientific areas: small area estimation and ecological-spatial regression. This paper reviews similarities and differences among them. Bayesian hierarchical models are typically used in this context, using a combination of covariate data and a set of spatial r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics Portugal
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Revstat Statistical Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/165 |
| Summary: | Disease mapping is linked to two other scientific areas: small area estimation and ecological-spatial regression. This paper reviews similarities and differences among them. Bayesian hierarchical models are typically used in this context, using a combination of covariate data and a set of spatial random effects to represent the risk surface. The random effects are typically modeled by a conditional autoregressive prior distribution, and a number of alternative specifications have been proposed in the literature. The four models assessed here are applied to a study on alcohol abuse in Portugal, using data collected by the World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
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| ISSN: | 1645-6726 2183-0371 |