A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of mortality rates in Spain: application to the COVID-19 2020 outbreak.
Pedro SaavedraAngelo Santana-Del-PinoLuis BelloJosé-Miguel PachecoEsther SanjuánPublished in: Population health metrics (2021)
Bayesian spatio-temporal models have proved to be a useful tool for estimating the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Spain in 2020, making it possible to assess how the disease has affected different age groups accounting for effects of sex, spatial variation between regions and time trend over the last few years.