ABSTRACT
As in other application areas, it is possible to consider the analysis of disease maps which have an associated temporal dimension. The two most common formats for observations are
(1) Geo-referenced case events which have associated a time of diagnosis or registration or onset, i.e., we observe within a fixed time period J and fixed spatial window W, m cases at locations {si, ti}, i = 1, . . . ,m;
(2) Counts of cases of disease within tracts are available for a sequence of J time periods, i.e., we observe a binning of case events within m × J space-time units: yij , i = 1, . . . ,m, j = 1, . . . , J .
