| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1064364 | Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
A Bayesian hierarchical generalized linear model is used to estimate the risk of lower-extremity amputations (LEA) among diabetes patients from different counties in the state of Missouri. The model includes fixed age effects, fixed gender effect, random geographic effects, and spatial correlations between neighboring counties. The computation is done by Gibbs sampling using OPENBUGS. DIC (Deviance Information Criterion) is used as a criterion of goodness of fit to examine age effects, gender effect, and spatial correlations among counties in the risks of having LEAs. The Bayesian estimates are also shown to be quite robust in terms of choices of hyper-parameters.
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Authors
Xiaoyi Min, Dongchu Sun, Zhuoqiong He, Mario Schootman,