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M A Martínez-Beneito1, A López-Quilez, P Botella-Rocamora
1Area de Epidemiología, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain. miguel.a.martinez@uv.es
Abstract:
Disease mapping has been a very active research field during recent years. Nevertheless, time trends in risks have been ignored in most of these studies, yet they can provide information with a very high epidemiological value. Lately, several spatio-temporal models have been proposed, either based on a parametric description of time trends, on independent risk estimates for every period, or on the definition of the joint covariance matrix for all the periods as a Kronecker product of matrices. The following paper offers an autoregressive approach to spatio-temporal disease mapping by fusing ideas from autoregressive time series in order to link information in time and by spatial modelling to link information in space. Our proposal can be easily implemented in Bayesian simulation software packages, for example WinBUGS. As a result, risk estimates are obtained for every region related to those in their neighbours and to those in the same region in adjacent periods.
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