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ArticleJournal of applied statistics2023

A multivariate spatiotemporal model for tracking COVID-19 incidence and death rates in socially vulnerable populations.

Brian Neelon, Chun-Che Wen, Sara E Benjamin-Neelon

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Article in Journal of applied statistics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Brian NeelonDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Chun-Che WenDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Sara E Benjamin-NeelonDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Medical University of South Carolina · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have produced inconsistent findings regarding the association between community social vulnerability and COVID-19 incidence and death rates. This inconsistency may be due, in part, to the fact that these studies modeled cases and deaths separately, ignoring their inherent association and thus yielding imprecise estimates. To improve inferences, we develop a Bayesian multivariate negative binomial model for exploring joint spatial and temporal trends in COVID-19 infections and deaths. The model introduces smooth functions that capture long-term temporal trends, while maintaining enough flexibility to detect local outbreaks in areas with vulnerable populations. Using multivariate autoregressive priors, we jointly model COVID-19 cases and deaths over time, taking advantage of convenient conditional representations to improve posterior computation. As such, the proposed model provides a general framework for multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of counts and rates. We adopt a fully Bayesian approach and develop an efficient posterior Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm that relies on easily sampled Gibbs steps. We use the model to examine incidence and death rates among counties with high and low social vulnerability in the state of Georgia, USA, from 15 March to 15 December 2020.

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Gaussian Markov random fieldLaplacian matrixnegative binomial modelpenalized splinesPólya-Gamma data augmentationrandom walk

Identifiers

PMID37260469
PMCPMC10228323
OpenAlexW4220896355

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