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Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Model for Small Area Estimation with Non-ignorable Nonresponses and Its Applications to the NHANES Dental Caries Assessments (1810.05297v3)

Published 12 Oct 2018 in stat.AP

Abstract: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a major program of the National Center for Health Statistics, designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The analysis of NHANES dental caries data faces several challenges, including (1) the data were collected using a complex, multistage, stratified, unequal-probability sampling design; (2) the sample size of some primary sampling units (PSU), e.g., counties, is very small; (3) the measures of dental caries have complicated structure and correlation, and (4) there is a substantial percentage of nonresponses, for which the missing data are expected to be not missing at random or non-ignorable. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical spatial model to address these analysis challenges. We develop a two-level Potts model that closely resembles the caries evolution process and captures complicated spatial correlations between teeth and surfaces of the teeth. By adding Bayesian hierarchies to the Potts model, we account for the multistage survey sampling design and also enable information borrowing across PSUs for small area estimation. We incorporate sampling weights by including them as a covariate in the model and adopt flexible B-splines to achieve robust inference. We account for non-ignorable missing outcomes and covariates using the selection model. We use data augmentation coupled with the noisy exchange sampler to obtain the posterior of model parameters that involve doubly-intractable normalizing constants. Our analysis results show strong spatial associations between teeth and tooth surfaces and that dental hygienic factors, fluorosis and sealant reduce the risks of having dental diseases.

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