Correction to: A geographic identifier assignment algorithm with Bayesian variable selection to identify neighborhood factors associated with emergency department visit disparities for asthma

Correction to: Int J Health Geogr (2020) 19:9 10.1186/s12942-020-00203-7

Unfortunately, the original version of the article [1] contained an error. A typo in the main equation (Eq. 1) has been introduced during the production process. The operator “ = ” in Eq. 1 “log(θ_ik) =  α + u_i…” was missing.

The equation should read as:

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill Y_{\mathit{ik}}& \sim Poisson\left({\mu }_{\mathit{ik}}\right)\hfill \\ \hfill {\mu }_{\mathit{ik}}& =E_i{\theta }_{\mathit{ik}}\hfill \\ \hfill log\left({\theta }_{\mathit{ik}}\right)& =\alpha +u_i+v_i+w_j+g_k+{{\mathit{\beta }}^{\mathbf{\prime }}}_1{\mathit{X}}_{\mathit{ik}}+{{\mathit{\beta }}^{\mathbf{\prime }}}_2{\mathit{X}}_j\hfill \\ \hfill {\beta }_{\ast }& \sim Normal\left(0,{\tau }_{\ast }^{-1}\right)\hfill \\ \hfill {\tau }_{\ast }^{-1}& \sim Gamma\left(2,1\right)\hfill \\ \hfill \end{array}$$ 1

The original article has been corrected.