3 papers
stat.ME2024
On the PM2.5 -- Mortality Association: A Bayesian Model for Spatio-Temporal Confounding
Carlo Zaccardi, Pasquale Valentini, Luigi Ippoliti +1
In epidemiological studies of air pollution and public health, estimating the health impact of exposure to air pollution may be hindered by the unknown functional form of the expos…
stat.ME2024
Regularized Principal Spline Functions to Mitigate Spatial Confounding
Carlo Zaccardi, Pasquale Valentini, Luigi Ippoliti +1
This paper proposes a new approach to address the problem of unmeasured confounding in spatial designs. Spatial confounding occurs when some confounding variables are unobserved an…
stat.AP2023
Functional zoning of biodiversity profiles
Natalia Golini, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Luigi Ippoliti +1
Spatial mapping of biodiversity is crucial to investigate spatial variations in natural communities. Several indices have been proposed in the literature to represent biodiversity…