PH425 Final Project

cold
epidemiology
chicago
Cook County Health and Housing Forward’s Recuperation in Supportive Environment (RISE) Center cares for people experiencing homelessness as they become well enough to…
Mar 29, 2023
Daniel P. Hall Riggins

Exploratory Data Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Cook County Wastewater

chicago
epidemiology
covid
I am working on a project to support Cook County Department of Public Health with wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. We want to detect surges of viral copies in…
Nov 12, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

How Big Are Chicago Neighborhoods?

geography
chicago
statistics
In certain methods of spatial cross-validation, you need to set an inclusion radius and a buffer distance for the folds into which you divide your data. I am working with…
Nov 9, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

Designing a Joint Model of SUID Risk and Live Birth Counts

suid
infant-safety
pediatrics
epidemiology
statistics
The purpose of this post is to solicit help with building a more useful Bayesian model of SUID Risk.
Oct 13, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

Characterizing Age of Victims of Gun-Related Deaths in Cook County, IL, 2017-2021

guns
epidemiology
Data was sourced from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office and modified according to the data pipeline in this commit of my Github repository.
Oct 2, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

Modeling Live Births from Population Counts: A First-Time MCMC Model

suid
infant-safety
pediatrics
epidemiology
statistics
In my previous post, I estimated risk of sudden unexpected infant death in census tracts while acknowledging that I was using the wrong denominator. I should have been using the count of live births in each census tract, but I have not been able to find counts of live births at such a fine geographic scale. The data we…
Sep 19, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

What Makes Bayesian Methods Different and Why Should I Care?

suid
infant-safety
pediatrics
epidemiology
statistics
In my last post, I showed how to estimate risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) in census tracts using Bayesian methods. The Bayesian approach is a separate branch of statistics…
Sep 8, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD

Estimating Risk for Rare Events in Small Areas where the Denominator is Unknown

suid
infant-safety
pediatrics
This blog post is an adaptation of methods taught by David Robinson in his book Introduction to Empirical Bayes: Examples from Baseball Statistics.
Aug 31, 2022
Daniel P. Hall Riggins, MD
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