Events Calendar

The Iowa Social Science Research Center conducts workshops during the Fall and Spring semesters. The Spring 2021 workshops will recorded and posted online. The link to each workshop recording will be updated on the ISRC website as the recordings become available. 

Topic: Bayesian Disease Mapping with R and OpenBUGS
Presenter: Seungwon Kim
Aggregated health or crime data at county or even smaller geographic scales often provide insights into the driving factors of the risks. Raw incidence rates of diseases or crimes, however, are often unstable particularly in less populated areas, preventing us to capture the underlying processes of our interests. We will learn to use a Bayesian smoothing approach to identify the risk factors of diseases or crimes, as well as to visualize the spatial patterns of the relative risk using R and openBUGS. Participants are expected to have intermediate skills in R and basic familiarity with ArcMap. Datasets and code will be provided.