Because weather has the potential to confound or modify the pollution–mortality relationship, researchers have developed several approaches for controlling it in estimating the independent effect of air pollution on mortality. This report considers the consequences of using alternative...

type="main" xml:id="rssa12069-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Data from multiple prevalence surveys can provide information on common parameters of interest, which can therefore be estimated more precisely in a joint analysis than by separate analyses of the data from each survey. However, fitting a single...</p>

In this article, we propose a new parametric family of models for real-valued spatio-temporal stochastic processes <b>"S"</b>(<b>"x"</b>, <b>"t"</b>) and show how low-rank approximations can be used to overcome the computational problems that arise in fitting the proposed class of models to large datasets. Separable...

type="main" xml:id="rssa12033-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Within an area of sub-Saharan Africa termed ‘the meningitis belt’, meningococcal meningitis epidemics are a major public health concern. The epidemic control strategy that is currently utilized is reactive, such that a vaccination programme is...</p>

In this article, we propose a method for conducting likelihood-based inference for a class of nonstationary spatiotemporal log-Gaussian Cox processes. The method uses convolution-based models to capture spatiotemporal correlation structure, is computationally feasible even for large datasets,...