Space-time confounding adjusted determinants of child HIV/TB mortality for large zero-inflated data in rural South Africa

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 205-217

  Musenge, Eustasius ^a,b   Vounatsou, Penelope ^c   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Agincourt rural South Africa; HIV TB; Over dispersed; Spatiotemporal confounding; Zero inflated

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN ZERO INFLATED SPATIOTEMPORAL MODEL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATHER; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; PARITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, ORPHANED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 82455168025     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2011.07.001     Document Type: Review

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