Overview
Penelope Vounatsou is a biostatistician (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel) specializing in Bayesian spatial and spatio-temporal modelling for epidemiology, particularly disease risk mapping for malaria and other tropical diseases.
Key Contributions / Features
- Proper multivariate CAR (Gelfand-Vounatsou 2003): co-developed proper multivariate CAR models with spatial autoregression parameters for hierarchical spatial data analysis.
- Extensive applied work on Bayesian geostatistical models for disease mapping and environmental epidemiology.
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