ABSTRACT
Parallel to Chapter 8, this chapter showcases four examples of areal and temporal areal unit data sets.
The examples are on:
assessing childhood vaccination coverage in Kenya,
assessing trends in cancer rates in the 48 states in the USA,
localized modeling of hospitalization rates in English local regions,
assessing trend in child poverty in London.
All the model fitting is done using the Bcartime model fitting function in the bmstdr package. The fitted model object is then explored for making several types of inference required in different practical settings. The full version of the code lines for model fitting and further investigations are provided in an online supplement which allows the reader to reproduce all the results and graphs illustrated here.
