Abstract
We present a state-of-the-art application of smoothing for dependent bivariate binomial spatial data to Loa loa prevalence mapping in West Africa. This application is special because it starts with the non-spatial calibration of survey instruments, continues with the spatial model building and assessment and ends with robust, tested software that will be used by the field scientists of the World Health Organization for online prevalence map updating. From a statistical perspective several important methodological issues were addressed: (a) building spatial models that are complex enough to capture the structure of the data but remain computationally usable; (b)reducing the computational burden in the handling of very large covariate data sets; (c) devising methods for comparing spatial prediction methods for a given exceedance policy threshold.
Disciplines
Disease Modeling
Suggested Citation
Crainiceanu, Ciprian M.; Diggle, Peter J.; and Rowlingson, Barry, "BIVARIATE BINOMIAL SPATIAL MODELLING LOA loa PREVALENCE IN TROPICAL AFRICA" (March 2006). Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers. Working Paper 103.
https://biostats.bepress.com/jhubiostat/paper103