美国各州身体发病率的社会经济驱动因素:空间因子推论方法

Socioeconomic Drivers of Physical Morbidity Across U.S. Counties: A Spatial Causal Inference Approach

Identifying the causal effects of socioeconomic determinants on population health is of many great interests - from statistical methodology development to public health practitioners and policy developments. The statistical side of the problem needs to address several questions: spatial autocorrelation in both exposures and outcomes, confounding between treatments and covariates, and the need for geographically logical inference. We address these jointly by using spectral basis functions - Moran