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ArticlePloS one2021

MBGapp: A Shiny application for teaching model-based geostatistics to population health scientists.

Olatunji Johnson, Claudio Fronterre, Peter J Diggle, Benjamin Amoah, Emanuele Giorgi

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Olatunji JohnsonCHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4080-0999
Claudio FronterreCHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Peter J DiggleCHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Benjamin AmoahCHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Emanuele GiorgiCHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

User-friendly interfaces have been increasingly used to facilitate the learning of advanced statistical methodology, especially for students with only minimal statistical training. In this paper, we illustrate the use of MBGapp for teaching geostatistical analysis to population health scientists. Using a case-study on Loa loa infections, we show how MBGapp can be used to teach the different stages of a geostatistical analysis in a more interactive fashion. For wider accessibility and usability, MBGapp is available as an R package and as a Shiny web-application that can be freely accessed on any web browser. In addition to MBGapp, we also present an auxiliary Shiny app, called VariagramApp, that can be used to aid the teaching of Gaussian processes in one and two dimensions using simulations.

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Population DynamicsPopulation HealthAlgorithmsCameroonGeographyHumansLearningModels, StatisticalMonte Carlo MethodNormal DistributionPoisson DistributionPrevalenceReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareStatistics as TopicWeb Browser

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PMID34972193
PMCPMC8719748

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