Combining data from multiple spatially referenced prevalence surveys using generalized linear geostatistical models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 445-464

  Giorgi, Emanuele ^a,b   Sesay, Sanie S S ^c,d   Terlouw, Dianne J ^c,d   Diggle, Peter J ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convenience sampling; Generalized linear geostatistical models; Malaria mapping; Monte Carlo maximum likelihood; Multiple surveys; Spatiotemporal models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920912020     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12069     Document Type: Article

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