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Mapping malaria risk in West Africa using a Bayesian nonparametric non-stationary model

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  • Gosoniu, L.
  • Vounatsou, P.
  • Sogoba, N.
  • Maire, N.
  • Smith, T.

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Malaria transmission is highly influenced by environmental and climatic conditions but their effects are often not linear. The climate-malaria relation is unlikely to be the same over large areas covered by different agro-ecological zones. Similarly, spatial correlation in malaria transmission arisen mainly due to spatially structured covariates (environmental and human made factors), could vary across the agro-ecological zones, introducing non-stationarity. Malaria prevalence data from West Africa extracted from the "Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa" database were analyzed to produce regional parasitaemia risk maps. A non-stationary geostatistical model was developed assuming that the underlying spatial process is a mixture of separate stationary processes within each zone. Non-linearity in the environmental effects was modeled by separate P-splines in each agro-ecological zone. The model allows smoothing at the borders between the zones. The P-splines approach has better predictive ability than categorizing the covariates as an alternative of modeling non-linearity. Model fit and prediction was handled within a Bayesian framework, using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations.

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  • Gosoniu, L. & Vounatsou, P. & Sogoba, N. & Maire, N. & Smith, T., 2009. "Mapping malaria risk in West Africa using a Bayesian nonparametric non-stationary model," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 53(9), pages 3358-3371, July.
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