Provides methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data, with particular focus on estimating and projecting under-five mortality rates, described in Mercer et al. (2015) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1214/15-AOAS872"), Li et al. (2019) tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0210645"), Wu et al. (DHS Spatial Analysis Reports No. 21, 2021), and Li et al. (2023) arXiv:2007.05117.
SUMMER provides methods for spatial and spatio-temporal smoothing of demographic and health indicators using survey data, with particular focus on estimating and projecting under-five mortality rates.
Maintainer: Zehang R Li lizehang@gmail.com
Authors:
Bryan D Martin bmartin6@uw.edu
Yuan Hsiao yahsiao@uw.edu
Jessica Godwin jlg0003@uw.edu
John Paige paigejo@gmail.com
Peter Gao petergao@uw.edu
Jon Wakefield jonno@uw.edu
Samuel J Clark work@samclark.net
Geir-Arne Fuglstad geir-arne.fuglstad@ntnu.no
Andrea Riebler andrea.riebler@ntnu.no
For details on the model implemented in this package, see Mercer et al. (2015) doi:10.1214/15-AOAS872 and Li et al. (2019) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210645.
The development version of the package will be maintained on https://github.com/richardli/SUMMER.
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