2014 Newcastle Short Course Website: Statistical Methods for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Health Data

Instructor:

• Jon Wakefield

Lecture Material

• Introduction: here
• Disease Mapping 1: here
• Disease Mapping 2: here
• Clustering and Cluster Detection: here
• Infectious Disease Data: here
• Small Area Estimation: here
• Disease Mapping Exercise Sheet: here
• Disease Mapping Exercise Solution: here
• Clustering and Cluster Detection Exercise Sheet: here
• Clustering and Cluster Detection Exercise Solution: here

Datasets and R Resources

• Waller and Gotway Book Website: here
• Shapefile for Germany Measles Data: here
• R Code for Empirical Bayes Summaries and Ohio Map: here
• INLA Homepage: here
• Ohio Data and Description: ohio.dat, ohio.readme
• Pennsylvania Data and graph file: penn-data.txt, penn.graph
• Pennsylvania Other Files: USA_adm2.RData, penn_nb
• Ohio graph file: ohio.graph
• Useful R functions (EBpostdens,EBbayes, EBpostthresh, etc): PolyMap.R
• North Carolina Graph File: NC.graph
• R Code for North Carolina SIDS Data Analysis Code
• wacounty.shp file for Lecture 1 example wacounty.shp
• wacounty.shx file for Lecture 1 example wacounty.shx
• wacounty.dbf file for Lecture 1 example wacounty.dbf

Papers and Technical Reports

• SpatialEpi Package Vignette: here
• Wakefield and Albert (2013): here
• Waller and Carlin (2010): here
• Waller et al (2006) Geography of Power: here
• Roger Bivand Technical Report on Spatial Analysis of SIDS data: here
• Hills, Plummer and Carstensen (2006) R Intro: here

Useful Links

• Spatial R Packages Spatial Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data