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Speaker: Stephen Jun Villejo
Date: April 27, 2023, 5 p.m.
Venue: via Zoom
Abstract: We propose a two-stage latent Gaussian model for a specific spatial misalignment problem. We use the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) to perform inference. The first-stage model is based on the Bayesian melding which does data fusion by assuming a common latent field for the observed outcomes. We use the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach to efficiently estimate the spatial field. It induces a Markov structure on the field which leads to sparse precision matrices giving great computational gains. Uncertainty in the first stage is accounted for by simulating repeatedly from the posterior predictive distribution of the field. A simulation study was carried out to assess the impact of the sparsity of the data, the number of time points, and the specification of the priors in terms of the biases, RMSEs, and coverage probabilities. The results show that the parameters are generally estimated correctly, but there is difficulty in estimating the random field parameters. The method is applied to NO2 concentration and respiratory hospitalizations for the year 2017 in England. An increase in NO2 levels is significantly associated with an increase in the relative risks of the health outcome. Also, there is a strong spatial structure and a strong temporal autocorrelation in the risks.
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