Navarra Spatial Statistics

The Navarra node is made up of researchers whose lines of research fall within the field of disease-mapping, a particular area of spatial and spatio-temporal statistics that allows the mapping of the incidence, mortality or prevalence of different diseases and which, for several decades, has been a fundamental part of research in public health, epidemiology and the study of diseases in human populations.

Researchers participating in the node

Principal Investigator: Jaione Etxeberria Andueza (Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA))

View all members

Main lines of investigation

One of the main lines of work of the group focuses on the study and proposal of different disease mapping techniques that allow to geographically represent relative risks and incidence/mortality rates/ of one or several diseases, both communicable and non-communicable, to elucidate their spatial evolution over time and to detail whether the evolution is the same or different by gender, age groups and birth cohorts.

Specific lines of research carried out by the members of the node (see poster) include:

  • Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling (univariate and multivariate) in the field of disease mapping representation.
  • Disease prediction models using methods for aggregate data analysis and/or geostatistics.
  • Scalable Bayesian models for large data volumes.
  • Study of spatial, temporal and spatio-temporal confounding induced in spatio-temporal and/or multivariate models after incorporation of covariates of interest.
  • Study of machine learning techniques to cope with Big Data problems in the field of disease mapping representation.

Institutions present in the node

Entities and groups with which it collaborates

Duncan Lee (Glasgow University)

Andrea Riebler (NTNU)

Gonzalo Vicente (Universidad de Cuyo)

James Hodges (Universidad de Minnesota)

Patrick Brown (Ohio State University)

Peter Congdon (Queen Mary University of London)

Hävard Rue (KAUST University)

List of node members

  • Jaione Etxeberria Andueza

    Principal InvestigatorComité EjecutivoUniversidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Arantxa Urdangarín

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Aritz Adin

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Camelia Trandafir

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Garazi Retegui

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Guzmán Santafé

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • María Dolores (Lola) Ugarte

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
  • Tomás Goicoa

    Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)