Bayesian hierarchical models for disease mapping applied to contagious pathologies.

Disease mapping aims to determine the underlying disease risk from scattered epidemiological data and to represent it on a smoothed colored map. This methodology is based on Bayesian inference and is classically dedicated to non-infectious diseases whose incidence is low and whose cases distribution...

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Main Authors: Sylvain Coly, Myriam Garrido, David Abrial, Anne-Françoise Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222898