Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics) - Hardcover

Lawson, Andrew B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466504811 ISBN 13: 9781466504813

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2013

Synopsis

Since the publication of the first edition, many new Bayesian tools and methods have been developed for space-time data analysis, the predictive modeling of health outcomes, and other spatial biostatistical areas. Exploring these new developments, Bayesian Disease Mapping: Hierarchical Modeling in Spatial Epidemiology, Second Edition provides an up-to-date, cohesive account of the full range of Bayesian disease mapping methods and applications. A biostatistics professor and WHO advisor, the author illustrates the use of Bayesian hierarchical modeling in the geographical analysis of disease through a range of real-world datasets.

New to the Second Edition

• Three new chapters on regression and ecological analysis, putative hazard modeling, and disease map surveillance
• Expanded material on case event modeling and spatiotemporal analysis
• New and updated examples
• Two new appendices featuring examples of integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) and conditional autoregressive (CAR) models

In addition to these new topics, the book covers more conventional areas such as relative risk estimation, clustering, spatial survival analysis, and longitudinal analysis. After an introduction to Bayesian inference, computation, and model assessment, the text focuses on important themes, including disease map reconstruction, cluster detection, regression and ecological analysis, putative hazard modeling, analysis of multiple scales and multiple diseases, spatial survival and longitudinal studies, spatiotemporal methods, and map surveillance. It shows how Bayesian disease mapping can yield significant insights into georeferenced health data. WinBUGS and R are used throughout for data manipulation and simulation.

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About the Author

Andrew B. Lawson is a professor of biostatistics and eminent scholar in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is an ASA fellow and an advisor in disease mapping and risk assessment for the World Health Organization. Dr. Lawson has published over 100 journal papers and eight books and is the founding editor of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. He received a PhD in spatial statistics from the University of St. Andrews. His research interests include the analysis of clustered disease maps, spatial and spatio-temporal disease surveillance, nutritional measurement error, and Bayesian latent variable and SEM modeling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466504811
• ISBN 13: 9781466504813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 396