4 papers
Mapping Subnational Vulnerability to Inadequate Micronutrient Intake using a Bayesian Small Area Estimation Framework
Sahoko Ishida, Mohammed Osman, Ziyao Cui +8
Inadequate dietary micronutrient intake is a significant risk factor for deficiency and remains a major global health challenge. Nutrition programmes and interventions are most eff…
Social Media Data for Population Mapping: A Bayesian Approach to Address Representativeness and Privacy Challenges
Paolo Andrich, Shengjie Lai, Halim Jun +4
Accurate and timely population data are essential for disaster response and humanitarian planning, but traditional censuses often cannot capture rapid demographic changes. Social m…
Fast approximate Bayesian inference of HIV indicators using PCA adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature
Adam Howes, Alex Stringer, Seth R. Flaxman +1
Naomi is a spatial evidence synthesis model used to produce district-level HIV epidemic indicators in sub-Saharan Africa. Multiple outcomes of policy interest, including HIV preval…
IMAGIC-500: IMputation benchmark on A Generative Imaginary Country (500k samples)
Siyi Sun, David Antony Selby, Yunchuan Huang +3
Missing data imputation in tabular datasets remains a pivotal challenge in data science and machine learning, particularly within socioeconomic research. However, real-world socioe…