An Evaluation of non-parametric relative risk estimators for disease maps

Clark, Allan B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2965-8941 and Lawson, Andrew B. (2004) An Evaluation of non-parametric relative risk estimators for disease maps. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 47 (1). pp. 63-78.

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Abstract

In geographical epidemiology it is often required to produce a map of the risk of disease over a study region, a disease map. This paper reviews a variety of approaches to produce disease maps when individual address locations are observed. These methods vary from kernel based smoothing approaches, e.g. Nadaraya–Watson, local linear and GAMs, to Bayesian partition models. The kernel-based methods have the advantage of speed, but the partition model has the advantage of being able to adapt to local features (i.e. clustering) of the surface. Another advantage of the kernel-based methodology is that the local linear model has a built in edge correction. A simulation study designed to assess the benefits of relative merits of each approach for relative risk estimation is described.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023)
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Clinical Trials Unit
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health
Depositing User: EPrints Services
Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2010 11:09
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2023 00:56
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/12357
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2003.10.014

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