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Bayesian hierarchical spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and mapping of tuberculosis in Kenya.

dc.contributor.advisorMwambi, Henry G.
dc.contributor.advisorOchia, Thomas Noel Ochieng.
dc.contributor.authorIddrisu, Abdul-Karim.
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-20T08:31:13Z
dc.date.available2013-12-20T08:31:13Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionThesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2013.en
dc.description.abstractGlobal spread of infectious disease threatens the well-being of human, domestic, and wildlife health. A proper understanding of global distribution of these diseases is an important part of disease management and policy making. However, data are subject to complexities by heterogeneity across host classes and space-time epidemic processes [Waller et al., 1997, Hosseini et al., 2006]. The use of frequentist methods in Biostatistics and epidemiology are common and are therefore extensively utilized in answering varied research questions. In this thesis, we proposed the Hierarchical Bayesian approach to study the spatial and the spatio-temporal pattern of tuberculosis in Kenya [Knorr-Held et al., 1998, Knorr-Held, 1999, L opez-Qu lez and Munoz, 2009, Waller et al., 1997, Julian Besag, 1991]. Space and time interaction of risk (ψ[ij]) is an important factor considered in this thesis. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method via WinBUGS and R packages were used for simulations [Ntzoufras, 2011, Congdon, 2010, David et al., 1995, Gimenez et al., 2009, Brian, 2003], and the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC), proposed by [Spiegelhalter et al., 2002], used for models comparison and selection. Variation in TB risk is observed among Kenya counties and clustering among counties with high TB relative risk (RR). HIV prevalence is identified as the dominant determinant of TB. We found clustering and heterogeneity of risk among high rate counties and the overall TB risk is slightly decreasing from 2002-2009. Interaction of TB relative risk in space and time is found to be increasing among rural counties that share boundaries with urban counties with high TB risk. This is as a result of the ability of models to borrow strength from neighbouring counties, such that near by counties have similar risk. Although the approaches are less than ideal, we hope that our formulations provide a useful stepping stone in the development of spatial and spatio-temporal methodology for the statistical analysis of risk from TB in Kenya.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/10279
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectEpidemiology--Statistical methods.en
dc.subjectCase-control method.en
dc.subjectMedical mapping--Kenya.en
dc.subjectBayesian statistical decision theory.en
dc.subjectBiometry--Kenya.en
dc.subjectTheses--Statistics and actuarial science.en
dc.titleBayesian hierarchical spatial and spatio-temporal modeling and mapping of tuberculosis in Kenya.en
dc.typeThesisen

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