How does Poisson kriging compare to the popular BYM model for mapping disease risks?

How does Poisson kriging compare to the popular BYM model for mapping disease risks?

BACKGROUND Geostatistical techniques are now available to account for spatially varying population sizes and spatial patterns in the mapping of disease rates. At first glance, Poisson kriging represents an attractive alternative to increasingly popular Bayesian spatial models in that: 1) it is easier to implement and less CPU intensive, and 2) it accounts for the size and shape of geographical ...

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How to compare different loss functions and their risks

Many learning problems are described by a risk functional which in turn is defined by a loss function, and a straightforward and widely-known approach to learn such problems is to minimize a (modified) empirical version of this risk functional. However, in many cases this approach suffers from substantial problems such as computational requirements in classification or robustness concerns in re...

mapping of stomach cancer rate in iran using area-to-area poisson kriging

background: stomach cancer has the highest prevalence of gastrointestinal cancer in iran. therefore, the aim of this study was mapping stomach cancer rate in iran using area-to-area poisson kriging.   methods: data of 336 cities in iran was analyzed that was gathered by the ministry of health and medical education (in the non-infectious diseases management center) from 2003 to 2007. area-to-are...

How does MyPyramid compare to other population-based recommendations for controlling chronic disease?

The Department of Agriculture's MyPyramid is presented as food guidance for the US general public and not "a therapeutic diet for any specific health condition," although many adults in this country are overweight or obese and many experience diet-related disorders. This paper shows the recommendations in MyPyramid are remarkably consistent with the various recommendations to control obesity an...