Spatio-temporal patterns of snake bite and suicide in India

In epidemiological studies, most of the existing research tried to investigate the long-term trends (e.g., yearly) in the disease data. However, in this project we will investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of snake bite and suicide in India, both of which are the significant health concerns in India. For both snake bite and suicide, the seasonality interacted with space is likely to expect and the current existing modeling framework is not appropriate any more. This introduces new statistical problems and the epidemiological modeling framework needs to be extended. The India’s Million Death Study (MDS) provides the daily disease data related to snake bite and suicide, which enable us to investigate the spatial variation in seasonality, and the short-scale variation related to weather, wild life and economics. In addition, we will make useful conclusions about snakes, suicide, and the proposed methods will be broadly applicable.

Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Brown

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Partner:

Imperial College London

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

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