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. 2017 Feb 3;14(2):146. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14020146

Table 1.

Summary of the structures of the spatio-temporal models discussed in this paper. The following abbreviations are used in the table: AR = autoregressive model [17], BYM = Besag–York–Mollie model (4), CAR = conditional autoregressive model (3).

Paper Space Time Space–Time
Bernardinelli et al. (1995) [6] CAR Linear CAR
Waller et al. (1997) [15] - - BYM
Xia and Carlin (1997) [16] - - BYM
Knorr-Held and Besag (1998) [18] BYM BYM -
Bohning et al. (2000) [19] - - Poisson Mixture
Knorr-Held (2000) [20] BYM BYM Kronecker
MacNab and Dean (2001) [7] CAR B-Spline CAR/B-Spline
Bohning (2003) [21] - - Poisson Mixture
Congdon and Southall (2005) [22] CAR Independent AR
MacNab (2007) [23] CAR B-Spline CAR + B-Spline
Kottas et al. (2008) [24] Dirichlet AR -
Martinez-Beneito et al. (2008) [25] CAR AR CAR + AR
Ugarte et al. (2010) [26] P-Spline P-Spline P-Spline
Torabi and Rosychuk [27] CAR B-Spline Kronecker
Lawson et al. (2012) [28] CAR AR Poisson Mixture
Lee and Lawson (2014) [29] (Method A) - - Piecewise constant
Lee and Lawson (2014) [29] (Method B) - - CAR + AR
Rushworth et al. (2014) [30] - - CAR + AR