This report is part of a series of activities to review and assess methods for exploratory
spatial data analysis and spatial statistics as they pertain to the study of the geography of …

Abstract Background The Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) model is widely used in many
small-area ecological studies to analyse outcomes measured at an areal level. There has …

Background Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infections are a major cause for liver diseases. A large
proportion of these infections remain hidden to care due to its mostly asymptomatic nature …

Objective Previous studies have indicated that spatial variation in suicide mortality is
associated with area-specific socioeconomic characteristics, such as socioeconomic …

With the advancement of spatial analysis approaches, methodological research addressing
the technical and statistical issues related to joint spatial and spatiotemporal models has …

Past urban research on Western nations tends to show high suicide rates in inner city and
socioeconomically deprived areas. However, little is known about geographic variations in …

Dengue is considered the most important vector borne virus disease worldwide placing
some 2.5 billion people at risk globally. Despite the public health concern about dengue …

Background There is an expanding literature on different representations of spatial random
effects for different types of spatial correlation structure within the conditional autoregressive …

Abstract Background The importance of Small Area Variation Analysis for policy-making
contrasts with the scarcity of work on the validity of the statistics used in these studies. Our …

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and
estimating its relative risks and trends of incidence at the area-level is helpful for health …