Urban Dengue and Spatial Dependence: A SAR Model Incorporating Favela Data in Recife, Brazil

Marcílio Ferreira dos Santos, Andreza dos Santos Rodrigues de Melo

In this study, we used a dataset of approximately 96,000 reported dengue cases from 2015 to 2024 in Recife, the capital of northeastern Brazil, all geocoded by neighborhood. The da…