2 papers
stat.ME2026
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.ME2025
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…