Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Carroll R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217709 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carroll R R Lawson A B AB Faes C C Kirby R S RS Aregay M M Watjou K K
Environmetrics 20160928 8
Spatio-temporal analysis of small area health data often involves choosing a fixed set of predictors prior to the final model fit. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal approach of Bayesian model selection to implement model selection for certain areas of the study region as well as certain years in the study time line. Here, we examine the usefulness of this approach by way of a large-scale simulation study accompanied by a case study. Our results suggest that a special case of the model ...[more]