4 papers
The Impact of a Gridded Streamflow Measure on Drought Variation in the Conterminous United States
Rob Erhardt, Courtney Di Vittorio, Staci Hepler +3
Models for droughts draw on a wide range of meteorological and hydrological inputs. Stakeholders classify droughts according to different purposes and priorities, and accordingly r…
Two-stage MCMC for Fast Bayesian Inference of Large Spatio-temporal Ordinal Data, with Application to US Drought
Staci Hepler, Rob Erhardt
High dimensional space-time data pose known computational challenges when fitting spatio-temporal models. Such data show dependence across several dimensions of space as well as in…
Combining straight-line and map-based distances to investigate the connection between proximity to healthy foods and disease
Sarah C. Lotspeich, Ashley E. Mullan, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan +1
Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people than others. This disparity in food access may lead to disparitie…
A latent spatial factor approach for synthesizing opioid associated deaths and treatment admissions in Ohio counties
Staci Hepler, Erin McKnight, Andrea Bonny +1
Background: Opioid misuse is a major public health issue in the United States and in particular Ohio. However, the burden of the epidemic is challenging to quantify as public healt…