SpatialEpiApp

Disease risk mapping and cluster detection with SpatialEpiApp

In this post I present SpatialEpiApp, a Shiny web application for the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal disease data. SpatialEpiApp integrates two of the most common approaches in public health surveillance: disease risk mapping and detection of clusters. The application allows to fit Bayesian disease models to obtain risk estimates and their uncertainty by using INLA, and to detect clusters by using the scan statistics implemented in SaTScan. SpatialEpiApp allows user interaction and creates interactive visualizations by using the R packages Leaflet for rendering maps, dygraphs for plotting time series, and DataTables for displaying data objects.

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