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Journal Articles International Journal of Health Geographics Year : 2007

Robustness of the BYM model in absence of spatial variation in the residuals.

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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In the context of ecological studies, the Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model is of prime interest when studying the association between environmental exposure and rare diseases. However, adding spatially structured extra-variability in the model fitted to the data when such extra-variability does not exist conditionally on the covariates included in the model (over-fitting ) may bias the estimation of the ecological association between covariates and relative risks toward the null. In order to investigate that possibility, a simulation study of the impact of introducing unnecessary residual spatial structure in the estimation model was conducted. RESULTS: In the case where no underlying extra-variability from the Poisson process exists, the simulation results show that models accounting for structured and unstructured residuals do not underestimate the ecological association, unless covariates have a very strong autocorrelation structure, i.e., 0.98 at 100 km on a territory of diameter 1000 km.
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inserm-00174861 , version 1 (25-09-2007)

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Aurélien Latouche, Chantal Guihenneuc-Jouyaux, Claire Girard, Denis Hémon. Robustness of the BYM model in absence of spatial variation in the residuals.. International Journal of Health Geographics, 2007, 6 (1), pp.39. ⟨10.1186/1476-072X-6-39⟩. ⟨inserm-00174861⟩
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