Intrinsically Autoregressive Spatiotemporal Models With Application to Aggregated Birth Outcomes
内禀自回归时空模型及其在汇总出生结局中的应用
A class of hierarchical Bayesian models is proposed for adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth, which are assumed to follow a conditional binomial distribution. The log-odds of an adverse outcome in a particular county, logit(pi), follow a linear model that includes observed covariates and normally-distributed random effects. Spatial dependence between neighboring regions is allowed for by including an intrinsically autoregressive (IAR) prior or an IAR convolution…