5 papers
Copula and spatial-regularized variational autoencoder for mapping disease comorbidity in West Africa
Osafu Augustine Egbon, Bassey David Ita, Faith Eshofonie +1
Geospatial health disproportionality remains a critical public health concern, as communities face heterogeneous illness risks due to varying exposures to adverse socioeconomic and…
Violent event-related fatality patterns in Ethiopia: a Bayesian spatiotemporal perspective
Osafu Augustine Egbon, Asrat Mekonnen Belachew, Ezra Gayawan +1
Fatalities resulting from violence in armed conflict have long been a significant public health issue in Ethiopia. Despite the severity of this problem, more comprehensive quantita…
The impact of Women's empowerment on childhood vaccination coverage in Nigeria: a spatio-temporal analysis
Ezra Gayawan, Osafu Augustine Egbon, Edson Utazi +2
Immunization remains one of the most effective public health interventions, substantially reducing childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Yet, gender disparity and women's di…
Objective Bayesian Analysis for the Differential Entropy of the Gamma Distribution
Eduardo Ramos, Osafu A. Egbon, Pedro L. Ramos +2
The present paper introduces a fully objective Bayesian analysis to obtain the posterior distribution of an entropy measure. Notably, we consider the gamma distribution, which desc…
Spatial Statistical Models: an overview under the Bayesian Approach
Francisco Louzada, Diego C. Nascimento, Osafu Augustine Egbon
Spatial documentation is exponentially increasing given the availability of Big IoT Data, enabled by the devices miniaturization and data storage capacity. Bayesian spatial statist…