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ArticleSpatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology2022

Knot selection for low-rank kriging models of spatial risk in case-control studies.

Joseph Boyle, David C Wheeler

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Article in Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 2022. 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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Joseph BoyleDepartment of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America.
David C WheelerDepartment of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America. Electronic address: david.wheeler@vcuhealth.org.

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Modeling cancer risk and environmental and socio-spatial exposures using residential historiesU01CA259376 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI SABO, ROY TRAVIS · 2021 to 2024
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NCI NIH HHS U01 CA259376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many spatial analysis methods have been used to identify potential geographic clusters of disease in case-control studies. Low-rank kriging (LRK) models reduce the computational burden in generalized additive models by using a set of knot locations instead of the observed subject locations for estimating spatial risk. However, there is little guidance regarding selection of the number and location of the knots in case-control studies. We perform an extensive simulation study that compares a commonly-used method of knot selection in LRK models with two proposed methods and varies the number of knots. We find the commonly-used method is vastly outperformed by those that consider the locations of cases. We find that the Teitz and Bart heuristic allows the highest spatial sensitivity and power to detect zones of elevated risk, and recommend its use with a number of knots as close to the number of case locations as computation time will allow.

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Case-Control StudiesComputer SimulationHumansSpatial AnalysisBayesianCase-control studyGeneralized additive modelLow-rank krigingSimulation study

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PMID35691650
PMCPMC9193977

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