Flexible Bayesian modeling of non-equidispersed counts with penalized complexity priors in disease incidence studies
Statistical Methods in Medical Research: An International Review Journal
Published online on March 16, 2026
Abstract
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Counts in epidemiology often deviate from equidispersion and exhibit spatial, temporal, and nonlinear structure that the Poisson model cannot accommodate. We introduce a gamma-count structured additive regression model that strategically integrates ...
Counts in epidemiology often deviate from equidispersion and exhibit spatial, temporal, and nonlinear structure that the Poisson model cannot accommodate. We introduce a gamma-count structured additive regression model that strategically integrates ...