Mapping Brucellosis Increases Relative to Elk Density Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

Mapping Brucellosis Increases Relative to Elk Density Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

The relationship between host density and parasite transmission is central to the effectiveness of many disease management strategies. Few studies, however, have empirically estimated this relationship particularly in large mammals. We applied hierarchical Bayesian methods to a 19-year dataset of over 6400 brucellosis tests of adult female elk (Cervus elaphus) in northwestern Wyoming. Managemen...

mapping spatial variation of disease using classic and bayesian models

abstract   disease mapping includes a set of statistical techniques that lead to provide clean maps based on estimation of the incidence, prevalence and mortality rates for the users to be able to estimate the distribution of disease reliably. the main aims of disease mapping are to: describe the spatial variation in disease incidence for the formulation of etiological hypotheses; identify area...

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Calibrating Subjective Probabilities Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

Abstract. A body of psychological research has examined the correspondence between a judge’s subjective probability of an event’s outcome and the event’s actual outcome. The research generally shows that subjective probabilities are noisy and do not match the “true” probabilities. However, subjective probabilities are still useful for forecasting purposes if they bear some relationship to true ...

A Bayesian sampling approach to decision fusion using hierarchical models

Data fusion and distributed detection have been studied extensively, and numerous results have been obtained during the past two decades. In this paper, the design of fusion rule for distributed detection problems is re-examined, and a novel approach using Bayesian inference tools is proposed. Specifically, the decision fusion problem is reformulated using hierarchical models, and a Gibbs sampl...