A Spatial Variance-Smoothing Area Level Model for Small Area Estimation of Demographic Rates [0.03%]
小区域估计中具有空间变异性平滑的地区水平模型
Peter A Gao,Jonathan Wakefield
Peter A Gao
Accurate estimates of subnational health and demographic indicators are critical for informing policy. Many countries collect relevant data using complex household surveys, but when data are limited, direct weighted estimates of small area ...
Global seasonal and pandemic patterns in influenza: An application of longitudinal study designs [0.03%]
流感的全球季节性和大流行模式：纵向研究设计的应用
Elena N Naumova,Ryan B Simpson,Bingjie Zhou et al.
Elena N Naumova et al.
The confluence of growing analytic capacities and global surveillance systems for seasonal infections has created new opportunities to further develop statistical methodology and advance the understanding of the global disease dynamics. We ...
Majid Asadi,Karthik Devarajan,Nader Ebrahimi et al.
Majid Asadi et al.
Various statistical methodologies embed a probability distribution in a more flexible family of distributions. The latter is called elaboration model, which is constructed by choice or a formal procedure and evaluated by asymmetric measures...
A Legacy of EM Algorithms [0.03%]
EM算法的传承与发展
Kenneth Lange,Hua Zhou
Kenneth Lange
Nan Laird has an enormous and growing impact on computational statistics. Her paper with Dempster and Rubin on the expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm is the second most cited paper in statistics. Her papers and book on longitudinal mod...
A Review of Spatial Causal Inference Methods for Environmental and Epidemiological Applications [0.03%]
环境和流行病学应用的空间因果推理方法评论
Brian J Reich,Shu Yang,Yawen Guan et al.
Brian J Reich et al.
The scientific rigor and computational methods of causal inference have had great impacts on many disciplines but have only recently begun to take hold in spatial applications. Spatial causal inference poses analytic challenges due to compl...
Survival Modelling For Data From Combined Cohorts: Opening the Door to Meta Survival Analyses and Survival Analysis using Electronic Health Records [0.03%]
联合队列数据的生存模型：开启荟萃生存分析及基于电子健康档案的生存分析之门
James H McVittie,Ana F Best,David B Wolfson et al.
James H McVittie et al.
Non-parametric estimation of the survival function using observed failure time data depends on the underlying data generating mechanism, including the ways in which the data may be censored and/or truncated. For data arising from a single s...
Path algorithms for fused lasso signal approximator with application to COVID-19 spread in Korea [0.03%]
融合lasso信号近似器的路径算法及其在韩国COVID-19传播中的应用
Won Son,Johan Lim,Donghyeon Yu
Won Son
The fused lasso signal approximator (FLSA) is a smoothing procedure for noisy observations that uses fused lasso penalty on unobserved mean levels to find sparse signal blocks. Several path algorithms have been developed to obtain the whole...
Synergy of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in Air Pollution Health Effects Studies [0.03%]
生物统计学和流行病学在空气污染健康影响研究中的协同作用
Douglas W Dockery
Douglas W Dockery
The extraordinary advances in quantifying the health effects of ambient air pollution over the last five decades have led to dramatic improvement in air quality in the United States. This work has been possible through innovative epidemiolo...
Temporal Models for Demographic and Global Health Outcomes in Multiple Populations: Introducing a New Framework to Review and Standardise Documentation of Model Assumptions and Facilitate Model Comparison [0.03%]
多人群体的时空模型在人口统计和全球健康结果中的应用：引入一个新的框架以审查和标准化模型假设的文档并促进模型比较
Herbert Susmann,Monica Alexander,Leontine Alkema
Herbert Susmann
There is growing interest in producing estimates of demographic and global health indicators in populations with limited data. Statistical models are needed to combine data from multiple data sources into estimates and projections with unce...
Jon Wakefield,Taylor Okonek,Jon Pedersen
Jon Wakefield
Small area estimation (SAE) entails estimating characteristics of interest for domains, often geographical areas, in which there may be few or no samples available. SAE has a long history and a wide variety of methods have been suggested, f...