期刊
ANNALS OF APPLIED STATISTICS
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 154-176出版社
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/12-AOAS600
关键词
Gaussian process; gradients; Markov chain Monte Carlo; spatial process models; spatially associated functional data
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA112444] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [RC1 GM092400] Funding Source: Medline
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1106609] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Advances in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have led to the enormous recent burgeoning of spatial-temporal databases and associated statistical modeling. Here we depart from the rather rich literature in space-time modeling by considering the setting where space is discrete (e. g., aggregated data over regions), but time is continuous. Our major objective in this application is to carry out inference on gradients of a temporal process in our data set of monthly county level asthma hospitalization rates in the state of California, while at the same time accounting for spatial similarities of the temporal process across neighboring counties. Use of continuous time models here allows inference at a finer resolution than at which the data are sampled. Rather than use parametric forms to model time, we opt for a more flexible stochastic process embedded within a dynamic Markov random field framework. Through the matrix-valued covariance function we can ensure that the temporal process realizations are mean square differentiable, and may thus carry out inference on temporal gradients in a posterior predictive fashion. We use this approach to evaluate temporal gradients where we are concerned with temporal changes in the residual and fitted rate curves after accounting for seasonality, spatiotemporal ozone levels and several spatially-resolved important sociodemographic covariates.
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