Estimating HIV epidemics for subnational areas
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Publication:6138577
DOI10.1214/23-AOAS1730arXiv1508.06618OpenAlexW2242770982MaRDI QIDQ6138577FDOQ6138577
Authors: Le Bao, Xiaoyue Niu, Mary Mahy, Peter D. Ghys 
Publication date: 16 January 2024
Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: As the global HIV pandemic enters its fourth decade, increasing numbers of surveillance sites have been established which allows countries to look into the epidemics at a finer scale, e.g. at sub-national levels. Currently, the epidemic models have been applied independently to the sub-national areas within countries. However, the availability and quality of the data vary widely, which leads to biased and unreliable estimates for areas with very few data. We propose to overcome this issue by introducing the dependence of the parameters across areas in a mixture model. The joint distribution of the parameters in multiple areas can be approximated directly from the results of independent fits without needing to refit the data or unpack the software. As a result, the mixture model has better predictive ability than the independent model as shown in examples of multiple countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06618
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