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Small Area Estimation of Health Outcomes

Domain:

healthcare

Record type:

paper
Creator:
WakOkoPed
Publisher:
arXiv
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Small area estimation (SAE) entails estimating characteristics of interest for domains, often geographical areas, in which there may be few or no samples available. SAE has a long history and a wide variety of methods have been suggested, from a bewildering range of philosophical standpoints. We describe design-based and model-based approaches and models that are specified at the area-level and at the unit-level, focusing on health applications and fully Bayesian spatial models. The use of auxiliary information is a key ingredient for successful inference when response data are sparse and we discuss a number of approaches that allow the inclusion of covariate data. SAE for HIV prevalence, using data collected from a Demographic Health Survey in Malawi in 2015-2016, is used to illustrate a number of techniques. The potential use of SAE techniques for outcomes related to COVID-19 is discussed. 53 pages, 27 figures

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Applications (stat.AP)Methodology (stat.ME)FOS: Computer and information sciencesFOS: Computer and information sciences

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