Bayesian geoadditive modelling of breastfeeding initiation in Nigeria
尼日利亚母乳喂养启动时间的贝叶斯地理加性建模
Abstract A study into the geographical variability of timing of initial child breastfeeding after birth was carried out with the data set from the 1999 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. The effect of the metrical covariate of the mother's age at birth was assumed to be nonlinear and estimated nonparametrically. Other categorical covariates are estimated in the usual parametric form. Within a Bayesian context, appropriate priors are assigned for the geographical…