Variance partitioning in spatio-temporal disease mapping models

09/27/2021
by   M. Franco-Villoria, et al.
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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Bayesian disease mapping, yet if undeniably useful to describe variation in risk over time and space, comes with the hurdle of prior elicitation on hard-to-interpret precision parameters. We introduce a reparametrized version of the popular spatio-temporal interaction models, based on Kronecker product intrinsic Gaussian Markov Random Fields, that we name variance partitioning (VP) model. The VP model includes a mixing parameter that balances the contribution of the main and interaction effects to the total (generalized) variance and enhances interpretability. The use of a penalized complexity prior on the mixing parameter aids in coding any prior information in a intuitive way. We illustrate the advantages of the VP model on two case studies.

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