disaggregation: An R Package for Bayesian Spatial Disaggregation Modeling

Disaggregation modeling, or downscaling, has become an important discipline in epidemiology. Surveillance data, aggregated over large regions, is becoming more common, leading to an increasing demand for modeling frameworks that can deal with this data to understand spatial patterns.

Citation:
Nandi AK, Lucas TCD, Arambepola R, Gething P, Weiss DJ. disaggregation: An R Package for Bayesian Spatial Disaggregation Modeling. J Stat Software. 2023;106

Keywords:
Bayesian modelling; disaggregation modelling; TMB

Abstract:
Disaggregation modeling, or downscaling, has become an important discipline in epidemiology. Surveillance data, aggregated over large regions, is becoming more common, leading to an increasing demand for modeling frameworks that can deal with this data to understand spatial patterns.